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Mizzima A total of 101 inmates, including eleven political prisoners, were released from Pyay and Paungde prisons on 17 April, as part of a nationwide amnesty granted by the junta to mark the traditional Myanmar New Year. (confirmed by 4 sources) [1]
Thirty-one political prisoners, including 15 women, were beaten and placed in solitary confinement in Bago Region’s Tharyarwaddy Prison for commemorating Martyrs’ Day, according to groups that monitor political prisoners in Myanmar. [2]
Mizzima Prison officials and wardens at Bago’s Daik-U Prison and Ayeyarwady’s Myaungmya Prison are allegedly extorting money from inmates, with those unable to pay facing torture, according to the Political Prisoners Network Myanmar (PPNM). [3]
Mizzima Around 100 prisoners, including approximately 50 political prisoners, from Monywa Prison in Sagaing Region, were transferred by ship via the Chindwin River, according to the Political Prisoners Network – Myanmar (PPNM). [4]
Twenty-eight political prisoners in Kale Prison, Sagaing Region, have been kept in solitary confinement with their legs shackled for nearly two years, according to the Political Prisoners Network Myanmar (PPNM) They were accused of plotting a jailbre... [5]
Mizzima A total of 101 inmates, including eleven political prisoners, were released from Pyay and Paungde prisons on 17 April, as part of a nationwide amnesty granted by the junta to mark the traditional Myanmar New Year.
Thirty-one political prisoners, including 15 women, were beaten and placed in solitary confinement in Bago Region’s Tharyarwaddy Prison for commemorating Martyrs’ Day, according to groups that monitor political prisoners in Myanmar.
Mizzima Prison officials and wardens at Bago’s Daik-U Prison and Ayeyarwady’s Myaungmya Prison are allegedly extorting money from inmates, with those unable to pay facing torture, according to the Political Prisoners Network Myanmar (PPNM).
Mizzima Around 100 prisoners, including approximately 50 political prisoners, from Monywa Prison in Sagaing Region, were transferred by ship via the Chindwin River, according to the Political Prisoners Network – Myanmar (PPNM).
Twenty-eight political prisoners in Kale Prison, Sagaing Region, have been kept in solitary confinement with their legs shackled for nearly two years, according to the Political Prisoners Network Myanmar (PPNM) They were accused of plotting a jailbre
Mizzima The Political Prisoners Network Myanmar (PPNM) reported on 5 January 2026, that 35 political prisoners at Magway Prison were severely beaten by prison authorities and placed in solitary confinement after refusing to perform dishwashing duties
At least 13 political prisoners died in junta detainment in the first quarter of 2024, compared with two in the same period last year, according to the Political Prisoners Network Myanmar (PPN).
Seventeen of the 31 political prisoners in Bago Region’s Tharyarwaddy Prison who were placed in solitary confinement after they marked Martyrs’ Day in July remain in solitary confinement, the Myanmar Political Prisoners Network said.
Mizzima Political prisoners involved in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) in Monywa Prison, Sagaing Region, are facing pressure from prison authorities to submit petitions, reported the Political Prisoners Network-Myanmar (PPNM).