Myanmar (Burma)
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist de facto
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · Myanmar was a cosponsor of the amendments presented...
- News items in the archive
- 148
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Myanmar (Burma) is classified as Abolitionist de facto in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 148 news items on Myanmar (Burma), from 1999 to today.
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- JANUARY 1, 2002Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Myanmar has been under military rule since 1988
Myanmar has been under military rule since 1988
- NOVEMBER 5, 2001Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Forcing 63 Burmese immigrants to return home could...
Forcing 63 Burmese immigrants to return home could put their lives in danger, said Wasant Panich, a member of Thailand's National Human Rights Committee, as authorities revealed a plan to send the immigrants back by leaving them at a border village in Bur
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2001Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Two men, Twan Sin Htan, alias Maung Win, 30, and Aik...
Two men, Twan Sin Htan, alias Maung Win, 30, and Aik Tun, alias Aung Kyaw, 24, were sentenced to death
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2001Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Burmese national Ar-liang sae Chern, 28, was sentenced...
Burmese national Ar-liang sae Chern, 28, was sentenced to death by the Criminal Court in Thailand
- AUGUST 31, 2001Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
The Criminal Court in Thailand condemned Pateutoh,...
The Criminal Court in Thailand condemned Pateutoh, 34, and Shi,18, both from Burma, to death for smuggling 400,000 speed pills from Burma into Tak's Mae Sot district on August 23, 2000
- AUGUST 18, 2001Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
State-owned media reported that the Yangon district...
State-owned media reported that the Yangon district court sentenced Mr Yumingyu, a 45 year old Taiwanese citizen, to death for trying to smuggle heroin out of the country
- AUGUST 2, 2001Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
A Burmese woman was sentenced to death by the South...
A Burmese woman was sentenced to death by the South Bangkok Criminal Court in Thailand for drug trafficking
- JULY 31, 2001Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
The Thai Criminal Court sentenced to death three Burmese...
The Thai Criminal Court sentenced to death three Burmese men found guilty of possessing 190,000 speed pills in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai, in March 2000
- JUNE 25, 2001Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
China executed Li Shaoju, a citizen of Myanmar, for...
China executed Li Shaoju, a citizen of Myanmar, for smuggling more than 136 kilograms of heroin, opium, and morphine from Myanmar to China
- JANUARY 1, 2001Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Myanmar has been under military rule since 1988
Myanmar has been under military rule since 1988
- JANUARY 1, 2001Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
High treason and premeditated murder are capital crimes
High treason and premeditated murder are capital crimes
- DECEMBER 4, 2000Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
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- OCTOBER 16, 2000Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
A U.N. human rights report described Myanmar's military...
A U.N. human rights report described Myanmar's military government as a Junta that marks itself with torture, rape, summary executions, anti-intellectualism and a general suffocating grip on all parts of society
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2000Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Aung San Suu Kyi, special rapporteur to Burma in 1998...
Aung San Suu Kyi, special rapporteur to Burma in 1998 and head of the National League for Democracy, Myanmar's main opposition party, said that "extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, the practice of torture and forced labour" are commonplace vio
- AUGUST 21, 2000Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
The Higher People's Court of south China's Guangxi...
The Higher People's Court of south China's Guangxi Zhuang handed down second court verdicts ranging from imprisonment to death for 14 Myanmar pirates charged with raiding a Taiwanese cargo ship and setting its 21 crew members adrift in the Andaman Sea
- JUNE 26, 2000Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
The Kunming Municipal Intermediate People's Court in...
The Kunming Municipal Intermediate People's Court in China pronounced death sentences on on Burmese drug smugglers Ying Han and Sai Yan Shan
- JUNE 12, 2000Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Major Yan Myint, deputy commander of Myanmar's 224th...
Major Yan Myint, deputy commander of Myanmar's 224th Battalion, arrested nine alleged traffickers at Ban Nakongmoo while they were attempting to cross into Thailand's Chiang Mai Province and confiscated drugs, according to a Thai official
- MAY 22, 2000Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Ka Hsaw Wa, a member of Burma's Karen ethnic minority...
Ka Hsaw Wa, a member of Burma's Karen ethnic minority and co-director of the Earthrights International (ERI) documented hundreds of cases of rape, execution and confiscation of property carried out by the military, from 1995 to 2000, during the building o
- MAY 18, 2000Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Myanmar's military rulers sentenced Saw Tin Oo, a member...
Myanmar's military rulers sentenced Saw Tin Oo, a member of the Kayin ethnic armed group, known as "God's Army," to death for "high treason" following an embassy seizure in Bangkok in October 1999
- APRIL 22, 2000Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Two Singaporeans have been sentenced to death for trafficking...
Two Singaporeans have been sentenced to death for trafficking in 5kg of heroin
- JANUARY 4, 2000Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Hla Win, a 60-year-old Myanmar man was executed in...
Hla Win, a 60-year-old Myanmar man was executed in Thailand for attempting to smuggle 11
- JANUARY 1, 2000Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
High treason and premeditated murder are capital crimes
High treason and premeditated murder are capital crimes
- JANUARY 1, 2000Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Myanmar has been under military rule since 1988
Myanmar has been under military rule since 1988
- NOVEMBER 18, 1999Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
On November 18, Burmese leader Khin Nyunt delivered...
On November 18, Burmese leader Khin Nyunt delivered a comprehensive speech in defense of the country's political system and human rights
- JULY 22, 1999Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Myanmar signed the letter, dated 22 July 1999, addressed...
Myanmar signed the letter, dated 22 July 1999, addressed to the President of the Economic and Social Council, in which the retentionist countries dissociated from the Commission on Human Rights resolution 1999/61 on the question of the death penalty
- FEBRUARY 1, 1999Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
On February 1, a local court in South China handed...
On February 1, a local court in South China handed down sentences ranging from imprisonment to death for 14 Myanmarese pirates charged with raiding a Taiwanese cargo ship and setting its 19 crew members adrift in the Andaman Sea
- JANUARY 1, 1999Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Myanmar was a cosponsor of the amendments presented...
Myanmar was a cosponsor of the amendments presented by Egypt (A/C
- JANUARY 1, 1999Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
High treason and premeditated murder are capital crimes
High treason and premeditated murder are capital crimes