The Arakan State Election Observation Committee has arranged to monitor 500 polling stations during the 2020 general election scheduled for November 8. 

Lawyers’ organisations in Arakan State have condemned authorities for opening a case under the Natural Disaster Management Law against three university students who staged a protest in front of government offices in Sittwe last week. 

Residents in downtown Ponnagyun, Arakan State, are on edge after two unexploded shells were found hung in front of a neighbourhood betel shop. 

The family of a rice mill owner from Sabarhtar village in Ponnagyun Township, Arakan State, who was arrested by the Tatmadaw for allegedly storing rice for the Arakan Army said they are concerned about the detainee’s safety as they remain unable to meet with him nearly two weeks after his arrest. 

Two Muslims were injured by shrapnel when an artillery shell struck Gotepihtaunt village in Arakan State’s Kyauktaw Township on September 13, according to the village administrator. 

Among 41 people in Chin State’s Paletwa Township who were detained, interrogated and ultimately released by the Tatmadaw last week, some men have received subsequent medical treatment for injuries allegedly received during beatings while in military custody. 

Civil society organisations assisting a mother of four from Ugar village in Arakan State’s Rathedaung Township want the woman to be afforded due process under the law after she filed a lawsuit against three Myanmar Army soldiers whom she accuses of raping her. 

A National League for Democracy (NLD) election campaign signboard near a local market in Maei town, Taungup Township, was destroyed over the weekend.

A female student from Sittwe University of Distance Education who sustained a shrapnel wound to her head when an artillery shell struck Nyaungkan village in Myebon Township will likely receive treatment in Yangon, according to family members of the victim. 

Arakan State-based political parties are calling on the government to restore full internet access during the election campaign period as the early days of canvassing have been marked by technological and public health-related hurdles. 

Two more men have been arrested in connection with the death of a police constable in Maungdaw Township, Arakan State, who went missing along with a colleague on September 5.

A police officer was hospitalised after being shot at a restaurant near Rar Maung Hall in Minbya Township, Arakan State, on September 10, a police official told DMG.

A student who participated in a protest in Mandalay opposing human rights violations in Arakan State has been arrested, according to an official from the All Burma Federation of Student Unions (ABFSU).

The Tatmadaw has taken back into its custody a rice mill owner from Sabarhtar village in Ponnagyun Township, Arakan State, who had been transferred to a police station in Sittwe, according to family members. 

A 6-year-old boy from Aungzigone village in Arakan State’s Rathedaung Township was wounded by an artillery shell believed to have been fired by the Tatmadaw on September 11, according to locals. 

Activists in Mandalay led by the All Burma Federation of Student Unions (ABFSU) staged a protest on September 10 against human rights violations in Arakan State.

The killing of a schoolteacher and two children this week in Arakan State’s Myebon Township has been condemned by a teachers’ union and the international advocacy group Save the Children.  

The United Nations has expressed its concern over the mass displacement of civilians from two villages in Kyauktaw Township that went up in flames amid recent fighting between the Tatmadaw and the Arakan Army (AA). 

Three members of the Arakan Students’ Union who staged a protest in front of the Arakan State government offices in Sittwe were arrested on September 9.The arrestees have been identified as Ko Toe Toe Aung, chair of the Sittwe Students’ Union; Ko Kyaw Naing Htay, the information in-charge of the Arakan Students’ Union; and Ko Oo Than Naing, the information in-charge of Sittwe University of Computer Studies.