The March 2025 earthquake damaged 180 mosques and Islamic buildings across 29 townships. Junta restrictions are still blocking Muslim communities from repairing and rebuilding them. On March 28, 2025, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck central Myanmar as Muslims gathered for Friday prayers, killing…
Download press release PDF — English. A Myanmar junta court has sentenced two Muslim mosque trustees to 11 years in prison and ordered the confiscation of Naung Cho Myoma Mosque in northern Shan State, Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) said today. BHRN urges international actors to press for the men’s release and the return of the mosque. A Myanmar judge participating in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) said the prosecution failed to present evidence establishing that the trustees had supported terrorism.…
BHRN calls for an end to forced labour and land confiscation in northern Maungdaw. The United League of Arakan (ULA) and its armed wing, the Arakan Army (AA), should immediately end the forced labor of Rohingya civilians in northern Maungdaw Township and halt the confiscation and redistribution of Rohingya-owned land to ethnic Rakhine settlers, the Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) said today. Information gathered…
Military-backed nationalist networks escalated their online campaigns. Online hate speech targeting Muslims, Rohingya, and women intensified across Myanmar’s social media landscape in 2025, fueled by military-backed nationalist networks and amplified by platforms with weak enforcement, the Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) said today. A…
Today marks five years since the Myanmar military seized power on February 1, 2021. In that time, the junta has killed thousands of civilians, detained more than 30,000 political prisoners, and displaced at least 3.6 million people. Its atrocities, which include war crimes and crimes against humanity, have only intensified over the past…
Equal protection has been systematically denied for decades. Today marks 77 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) affirmed that all people are entitled to safety, dignity, and equal protection under the law. Yet in Myanmar, these principles have been systematically violated for decades by the military, through…
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