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Capital punishment in Myanmar is a legal penalty. Myanmar is classified as a "retentionist" state. Before 25 July 2022, Myanmar was considered "abolitionist in practice," [1] meaning a country has not executed anyone in the past ten years or more and is believed to have an established practice or policy against carrying out executions.
The Myanmar Civil War, [ m] also known as the Burmese Civil War, Burmese Spring Revolution, or People's Defensive War, is an ongoing civil war following Myanmar's long-running insurgencies, which escalated significantly in response to the 2021 military coup d'état and the subsequent violent crackdown on anti-coup protests. [ 41][ 42] The ...
Kyaw Min Yu ( Burmese: ကျော်မင်းယု; also known as Ko Jimmy; 13 February 1969 – 23 July 2022) was a Burmese writer, political prisoner, and a member of the 88 Generation Students Group. He was executed in July 2022 [2] after being sentenced to death for activism against the junta that seized power in a coup in 2021. [3]
(Bloomberg) -- Myanmar’s military regime has executed four individuals, including a deposed pro-democracy lawmaker and a prominent activist, in its first use of the death penalty in over three ...
The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below. Extrajudicial executions and killings are not included. In general, executions carried out in the territory of a sovereign state when it was a colony or before the sovereign ...
Myanmar’s military government is denying reports that it sentenced six army generals to death or life imprisonment for their surrender this month of a regional military command headquarters on ...
Asia. China is the world's most active user of the death penalty; according to Amnesty International, China executes more people than the rest of the world combined, each year. [ 21] In December 2015, Mongolia repealed the death penalty for all crimes, [ 22] and in June 2022, Kazakhstan abolished it completely.
23 July- the State Administration Council announced that it had executed four political prisoners, including Zayar Thaw and Kyaw Min Yu, marking the first time the death penalty had been carried out in Myanmar since the late 1980s. [114] [115] The event was widely seen as provocative escalation by the Burmese military in the ongoing conflict.