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He's no martyr and was never a political prisoner denied access to justice, said an opposition leader.

Bo Kyi said AAPP was verifying the list of those pardoned and considers those jailed for incitement as being political prisoners.

Aung Lin Dwe said the amnesty is a "celebration of Myanmar's New Year to bring joy for the people and address humanitarian concerns".

A total of 5,600 people arrested or wanted over their roles in anti-coup protests would be freed in an amnesty on humanitarian grounds.

More than 5,200 people are being held in detention, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners activist group.

The charges against the 24 had been dropped because their involvement "had been due to external factors".

India said this week that more than 15,000 people had crossed the border to seek refuge.

As of Monday, 802 people had been killed in the junta's crackdown on its opponents.

Freelance journalist Yuki Kitazumi was picked up from his home and taken into custody by troops on Sunday night.

UN fears military clampdown on protests risked escalating into a civil conflict and appealed for a halt to the "slaughter".

With an increasingly limited internet services and its last private newspaper ceasing publication, Myanmar faces a growing isolation.

Hundreds of people have been rounded up by the army since the coup, many of them in night time raids.

The upside-down red triangle is a symbol once used by Nazis to designate political prisoners

The Foreign Ministry (Wisma Putra) has stressed that there is no basis to find Anwar Ibrahim a political prisoner as alleged by certain quarters.

Khalid via his Twitter account said the #BebasAnwar (#Free Anwar) billboards could be deemed seditious and out to confuse the people.

Donald Trump says he would impose the tariffs until China stops the flow of illegal drugs, particularly fentanyl, into the United States.

Topping the demands of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party is the release of all its leaders, including Khan, who has been jailed on a series of corruption charges since August 2023.

The report highlights that "60 per cent of all female homicides" are committed by "people closely related to them".

Two subsea cables, one linking Finland and Germany and the other connecting Sweden to Lithuania, were damaged in less than 24 hours.

It is clear that adding more lanes and highways doesn't work, because we are still attempting the same approach to solve the issue.

This investment includes efforts to upgrade INOKOM's existing assembly capacity to meet Hyundai's automotive needs.

'C4Cinta', directed by young filmmaker Karthik Shamalan, has set a new benchmark in Malaysian Tamil cinema.

The court denied bail and scheduled case mention on Feb 7 for the submission of forensic, autopsy, and chemist reports.

The classroom assessment approach offers a much more interesting learning ecosystem, says Fadhlina Sidek.

Google and Meta says the government should wait for the results of an age-verification trial before going ahead.