Myanmar arrests blogger, watchdog says
688409
Myanmar's junta has stepped up surveillance of the Internet, arresting one blogger who wrote about the stifling of free expression in the military-ruled nation, a media advocacy group said.
685337
BANGKOK, Thailand: Myanmar&#39;s secretive military regime has forced out its prime minister, the long-powerful Gen. Khin Nyunt, and placed him under house arrest on corruption charges, a government spokesman in neighboring Thailand said Tuesday.
413131
A Saudi blogger whose writings were critical of religious extremism has reportedly been detained by Saudi Arabian officials, according to advocacy groups.
516016
Myanmar has arrested almost 100 dissidents since it promised a UN envoy there would be no more detentions, according to Amnesty International.
248042
A Chinese civil rights activist who chronicled the plight of other dissidents before being taken from his home in December has been officially arrested and charged with subversion
660179
Savvy young bloggers in Myanmar are breaking through the military junta&#39;s tight Internet controls to post photos and videos of swelling anti-government protests, experts said Tuesday.
359043
Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi met a senior junta official on Friday, state media said, but it was not known what they discussed.
76221
ISN SECURITY WATCH (19/11/04) - The Military government of Myanmar (also known as Burma) is reportedly releasing some 3â937 prisoners âinappropriately jailedâ by the dissolved National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) led by the ousted prime minister
66577
RANGOON, Burma - Burma's military junta accused detained prodemocracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's political party of inciting unrest and instigating Buddhist monks to take part in protests over price hikes, state media reported yesterday.
67635
At least two Myanmar dissidents were among thousands of prisoners freed after the military government announced it had begun releasing more than 5,000 detainees in a third mass release in less than a month, relatives and officials said.
552651
Myanmar opposition leader and democracy  icon Aung San Suu Kyi spent another birthday under house arrest  on Tuesday as her supporters released doves and balloons to  accompany prayers for her release.
655666
A Chinese civil rights activist who chronicled the plight of other dissidents before being taken from his home in December has been officially arrested and charged with subversion, his lawyer said Friday.
188504
Several online journalists have been arrested, raising fears of a government crackdown on internet dissidents.
637177
Myanmar, under pressure from the International Labor Organization (ILO) to end forced labor, has freed an activist lawyer jailed last year after exposing abuses, an official has said.
317086
Authorities have detained a   Vietnamese-born U.S. citizen who has used the Internet to call   for multi-party democracy in the one-party communist state, the   man's daughter said on Monday.
202740
About 50 pro-democracy activists were briefly arrested Monday outside Yangon, as the Myanmar junta clamped down on dissent following a series of protests last week against a sharp hike in fuel prices.
268723
Reports from Burma say Prime Minister Khin Nyunt has been removed from his position and placed under house arrest. Officials in Thailand first announced the development Tuesday in Bangkok.