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Yangon factory and Adidas supplier sacks nearly 30 workers for striking in demand of wage increase
The Myanmar Pou Chen garment factory singles out and fires labour union members believed to have organised a 2,000-person strike
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Myanmar junta claims to have captured guerrilla assassins of retired army officer
The military claims seven men and three women in its custody are members of the Yangon-based Inya Urban Force
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Myanmar prisons suspend delivery of mail, parcels to inmates ‘until further notice’
Family members of political prisoners are concerned about the risk of increased repression and the wellbeing of their loved ones
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Bomb blasts, gunfire at Myanmar’s biggest prison kills eight, including guards
Prison staff and civilians are reportedly among those killed after shots are allegedly fired from a watchtower at Yangon’s Insein Prison following a parcel bomb attack
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Prisoner beaten to death in Myingyan Prison
The prison, which holds hundreds of political detainees, has become one of the most notorious in the country since last year’s coup