Five ministers including the Rakhine State Prime Minister, U Nyi Pu, have been charged under Section-55 of the anti-corruption law. The lawyers for both sides will complete their final application on January 12, U Aye Kyaw Than, a lawyer representing U Nyi Pu, told Mizzima.
Deposed Rakhine State Chief Minister U Nyi Pu and four other ousted ministers face charges relating to land transactions and the misuse of government funds.
High-Profile Ethnic Rakhine Political Prisoners Among Those Freed to Mark Myanmar Union Day
Dr Aye Maung in 2014 / The Irrawaddy
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By The Irrawaddy 12 February 2021
YANGON Prominent ethnic Rakhine politician Dr. Aye Maung and writer Wai Hin Aung, who were sentenced to long jail sentences for high treason, were freed on Friday as part of the military regime’s release of inmates, including political prisoners, to mark Union Day.
Their relatives confirmed to The Irrawaddy that the two were released from Insein Prison in Yangon at around 11 a.m. on Friday.
“Dr. Aye Maung and Ko Wai Hin Aung have been released. I have spoken with Dr. Aye Maung directly over the phone,” said U Aung Than Wai, a friend of Dr. Aye Maung.
Myanmar’s Military Jails Soldiers for 20 Years in Rape Case
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The rape victim. / Min Aung Khine / The Irrawaddy
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By Khine Rola 11 December 2020
SITTWE Myanmar’s military has sentenced three soldiers who raped a Rakhine woman in Rathedaung Township in late June to 20 years in prison.
“The court-martial sentenced the three to 20 years in prison with hard labor. They were then sent to Sittwe Prison,” said Daw Nyo Aye, chairwoman of Rakhine Women’s Network, who attended the trial on Friday.
The three privates, who confessed to committing rape, were prosecuted under the 1959 Defence Services Act and Articles 366, 376 and 144 of the Penal Code on Dec. 3.