On June 4, 2017, Burmese authorities arrested U Tun Tun Oo, leader of the Human Rights Activists Association, citing Burma’s notorious Telecommunications Law. He was arrested for livestreaming the play “We Want No War,” which is critical of the army’s historical persecution of ethnic groups. Two days before his arrest, Burmese authorities detained two journalists…
Zafar Ahmad Abdul Ghani, the President of the Myanmar Ethnic Rohingya Human Rights Organization in Malaysia (MERHROM), has released a press statement decrying the new government’s failure to cease the mistreatment of Burma’s ethnic Rohingya population. He accused the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party of failing to curb human rights abuses against the…
The Myanmar Motion Picture Organization – Burma’s film censorship board – banned the film, Twilight Over Burma: My Life as a Shan Princess in Rangoon, because it could allegedly “damage the ethnic unity of the state.” The movie, which was slated to be the opening film for the Human Rights Human Dignity film festival,…