Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian rights campaigner, has become the fifth Nobel Peace Prize laureate to win the award while being imprisoned. Sh...

Myanmar's military launched a ferocious crackdown against the country's Rohingya Muslim population in 2017, driving more than 740,000 refug...

A Myanmar junta court on Wednesday sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in jail for corruption, part of a barrage of criminal cases tha...

Suu Kyi, 76, has been detained since the generals staged a coup and ousted her government in February last year, ending the Southeast Asian...

Suu Kyi, 76, has been detained since the generals staged a coup and ousted her government on February 1, ending the Southeast Asian country...

A Myanmar junta court on Tuesday postponed giving a verdict in the incitement trial of deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the first ...

American journalist Danny Fenster, who was freed after nearly six months in jail in military-ruled Myanmar, was expected to arrive in the U...

It had been an arduous few months for the journalist who quickly found himself on the military junta's wanted list for his reporting of its...

Aung Kyaw, 31, a reporter for the Democratic Voice of Burma, and Zaw Zaw, 38, a freelance reporter for the online news agency Mizzima, were...

The slide from a nascent democracy to yet another coup, as rapid as it has been brutal, opens up a grim possibility: As bad as it looks in ...

International pressure is mounting: Western powers have repeatedly hit the generals with sanctions, Britain has called for a United Nations...

The country has been in chaos since February 1 when the military launched a coup and detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, ending Myan...

Here is a timeline of a nation that emerged from a military dictatorship, only to plunge into a trouble-filled -- and perhaps short-lived -...

A Chinese court last month handed down a four-year jail term to a citizen-journalist who reported from Wuhan, the epicentre of the virus be...

In 2020, the United Nations accused Trump's White House of mounting an "onslaught" against the media which, it said, had led to a very nega...

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were sentenced to 7 years of prison last week for breaching the country's hardline Official Secrets Act while repor...

These are the countries singled out by the press freedom group Reporters Without Borders as the worst culprits for systematic online censor...