Sources close to the prison report that a guard bludgeoned and stomped political detainees, in what rights groups describe as a pattern of regime abuse and torture designed to break resistance inside jails.
Beijing increasingly relies on private hacker groups to harass, destabilize and silence diaspora Tibetan, Uyghur and Hong Kong activists and journalists who report on their work.
The small, sparsely populated ethnic state in eastern Myanmar has become a major battleground due to its proximity to the regime’s nerve center of Napyitaw.
Naing Tun Lin, owner of the firm that built Sky Villa in Mandalay, was reportedly sentenced to five years in prison with hard labor. Over 200 people died in the collapse.
Leaked directives show police, firefighters and civil servants are being registered as auxiliary forces as the military shifts troops to Chin State and central Myanmar.
This week our editors discuss the regime’s baffling efforts to revive the Myitsone Dam project in Kachin State, even though the potential financier, China, seems to have lost interest in it.
