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Myanmar's military junta commutes 38 death sentences to life imprisonment as part of a wider amnesty.
2023-05-5

The State Administration Council of Myanmar grants an amnesty to 5,774 prisoners, including former British ambassador Vicky Bowman and Australian economist Sean Turnell, a former economic policy advisor to jailed state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi.
2022-11-17

The lawyer for American journalist Danny Fenster says that Myanmar's authorities have charged him with terrorism and sedition, in addition to three charges that he had already been facing. Fenster's lawyer says that, under counterterrorism law, Fenster could face life imprisonment.
2021-11-10

The office of Myanmar's civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, releases a statement announcing that she will personally lead the legal team defending the Burmese military's actions against the Rohingya minority in the International Criminal Court. Nine days earlier, fifty-seven countries led by The Gambia filed a lawsuit in the International Criminal Court, formally accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against the Rohingya.
2019-11-20

8,500 prisoners are granted amnesty in Myanmar by President Win Myint.
2018-04-17

Burma releases 500 prisoners, including at least 58 political prisoners and foreigners, in an amnesty.
2012-09-18

Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the National League for Democracy opposition party in Burma and MP for Kawhmu, leaves Yangon for Bangkok, Thailand on her first overseas trip in 22 years.
2012-05-29

Burma signs an agreement with the International Labour Organization to end forced labour by 2015.
2012-03-17

Officials in Burma order the military to stop offensives in ethnic minority areas.
2012-01-17

Myanmar's tightly controlled state newspapers call for a political amnesty indicating that reforms may soon be announced by President Thein Sein with the National Human Rights Commission recommending the pardon of some 6000 plus "prisoners of conscience".
2011-10-11