May 27, 2008: House arrest extended for another year, illegal under both international law and Burma's own law.
Reached 12 years under house arrest, solidarity protests held at 12 cities around the world.
Yangon was emptier than the previous days, as people were afraid of violent reprisals from the army, though many still took to the streets chanting such phrases as "wrongdoers who kill monks" as we...
Eyewitnesses reported between 30,000 and 100,000 people demonstrating in Yangon, making the event the largest Burmese anti-government protest in twenty years. The BBC reported that two locally well...
150 nuns joined the protests in Yangon. On that day, some 15,000 Buddhist monks and laymen marched through the streets of Yangon in the sixth day of escalating peaceful protests against the Burmese...
Around two thousand monks marched through Yangon and ten thousand through Mandalay, with other demonstrations in five townships across Myanmar. Those marching through the capital chanted the “Myitt...
The 2007 Burmese anti-government protests were a series of anti-government protests that started in Burma (also known as Union of Myanmar) on August 15, 2007. (On the names Burma and Myanmar see Na...
House arrest extended by one year flouting a direct appeal from U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to General Than Shwe.
The military junta detained eight people on Sunday, April 22, 2007 who took part in a rare demonstration in a Yangon suburb amid a growing military crackdown on protesters. A group of about ten pro...
According to the BBC, on February 22, 2007, a small group of individuals protested the current state of consumer prices in the country. While the protest was small and careful not to be seen as dir...
Arrested following the Depayin massacre she was held in secret detention for over 3 months before being returned to house arrest.
Released after 19 months
Placed under house arrest.
Released from house arrest. After supposedly being admitted for 3 years in 1989 but has been extended.
Placed under house arrest in Rangoon under martial law that allows for detention without charge or trial for three years.
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