Filmmaker Maung Thein Dan was arrested and charged with “supporting anti-government protests” over the alleged sale of anti-coup protests’ footage.

Poet Khet Thi has died while in detention after being arrested by armed soldiers alongside his wife, Chaw Su, on 8 May 2021 for an unknown reason.

The Myanmar military arrested actress Eaindra Kyaw Zin and actor Pyay Ti Oo on the “incitement charges” for opposing the military.

Poet and activist K Za Win was killed in the city of Monywa by security forces during an anti-military coup protest in Myanmar.

The trial against writer Saw Wai and two other activists started on charges of violation of Section 505(a) of the Penal Code.

Three members of Peacock Generation convicted and sentenced to six months in prison on the charge of “online defamation."

A movie about painter Egon Schiele was pulled from the European Film Festival in Yangon after Myanmar's censorship board banned scenes with nudity.

Myanmar’s film censorship board banned the film ‘Twilight over Burma’ on the grounds that it could “harm ethnic unity” and the “image of the military” as it tells the real-life story of an Austrian woman who married an ethnic Shan prince during the early days of the country’s independence and …

Poet Maung Saung Kha was sentenced on 24 May 2016 to six months in prison for defaming former president Thein Sein in a poem he posted on his Facebook page in October 2015, reported PEN International on 25 May 2016. The poet was arrested on 5 November 2015, charged for online …

According to PEN Myanmar, poet Maung Saung Kha was arrested on 5 November 2015 for defaming the president in a poem he posted on Facebook in early October 2015 in which a line said that he had a portrait of the president tattooed on his penis. The 23-year-old poet published …