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A Burmese court rejects the latest appeal by pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi against an extended detention.

Myanmar's ruling junta released the deputy leader of the country's pro-democracy party from nearly seven years in detention, but offered no indication that he or still-detained party leader Aung San Suu Kyi would be allowed to take part in this year's elections.

A Myanmar court Friday rejected an appeal by pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi against her extended house arrest, just days after the US re-engaged with the country's ruling junta. Judges at a divisional court in Yangon upheld the Nobel ...

An American man imprisoned in Myanmar for sneaking into the home of detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi flew out of the country Sunday after a visiting U.S. senator won his release.

A court in Myanmar will deliver its verdict in the trial of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on July 31, a spokesman for her party said today. Suu Kyi's lawyers received the date from the judge presiding over ...

A top court in the Indian capital of New Dehli on Thursday overturned a colonial-era law banning gay sex between consenting adults in a ruling hailed by activists as a victory for human rights in the world's biggest democracy.

Myanmar's highest court Wednesday granted an appeal for more witnesses from the country's top opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who is on trial on charges of subversion.

Chinese security forces blanketed Tiananmen Square on Wednesday ahead of the 20th anniversary of the June 4 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, a day after Twitter and Hotmail Internet services in China were blocked.

With outrage growing over its prosecution of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s junta again closed her trial to diplomats.

Army-ruled Myanmar opened the prison trial of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to diplomats and journalists on Wednesday in an apparent effort to calm international outrage over the case.