Jun 24, 2023 · Both young men had disappeared into Myanmar's gulag, a network of prisons and interrogation centres used for decades to detain and torture dissidents. At its heart is Insein …

Insein Prison (Burmese: အင်းစိန်ထောင်) is located in Yangon Division, near Yangon (Rangoon), the old capital of Myanmar (formerly Burma). From 1988 to 2011 it was run by the …

Jan 21, 2024 · Myanmar Witness has mapped 59 prisons and 53 labor camps in Myanmar, including confirmed and unconfirmed locations. 88% of the prisons mapped have been …

Jan 31, 2024 · Three years on from the military coup in Myanmar, a new investigation by CIR’s Myanmar Witness project uses satellite imagery and open source data to map the country’s …

Jun 10, 2021 · But on May 24, before he boarded the plane at Yangon International Airport, in Myanmar’s biggest city, Danny Fenster, 37, was stopped by security forces and inexplicably …

Oct 29, 2021 · From 16-year-old girls to aging monks, the revised legal system pulls no punches and has saw human rights fly out of the window. Political prisoners fill up most of the cells and …

Mandalay Central Prison (Burmese: မန္တလေးဗဟိုအကျဉ်းထောင်), informally known as Obo Prison (အိုးဘိုအကျဉ်းထောင်), is a major prison located in …

Jul 24, 2013 · YANGON, Myanmar — Today I go back to Insein Prison, where I was detained in the late 1990s and where throughout the decades of military rule in Myanmar, most political …

May 14, 2024 · In 1827, they established the first prison of Myanmar in Sittwe and on the 1st July 1894, the laws such as Myanmar Jail Manual as well as 1900 Acts of Prisoners were …

Nov 14, 2023 · On November 17, 2022, the Australian economist Sean Turnell was released from prison in Myanmar after nearly two years of isolation.