As anti-junta protesters stand trial for their activism in ever-increasing numbers, legal fees are piling up for the defendants and their families. 

Four students who have been charged with incitement for their involvement in an anti-war protest last year in the Arakan State capital appeared before the Sittwe Township Court for the first time on Friday. 

Twelve civilians arrested last year while transporting government-supplied rice for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Arakan State’s Kyauktaw Township were acquitted on Friday. 

The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) attacked a Tatmadaw engineering battalion truck near Wai Lar Taung village in Maungdaw Township on Friday, killing an officer and two workers, according to U Soe Aung, chairman of the Maungdaw District Administration Council.

The chair of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in the Arakan State capital Sittwe has resigned from the party, citing poor health.

A couple sheltering at a monastery turned displacement camp in Sittwe after being injured in fighting between the military and Arakan Army last year are seeking financial assistance to fund surgeries needed to remove shrapnel from their bodies.

Two children were seriously injured when an explosive remnant of war (ERW) blew up in Pelthadu village, Rathedaung Township, on March 4, according to family members of the victims.

Arakan State residents are seeking the reopening of motorways and waterways that were initially closed for security reasons amid fighting between the Tatmadaw and Arakan Army (AA) in Arakan and Chin states. 

A central committee member and former Amyotha Hluttaw lawmaker for the Arakan National Party (ANP) in Pauktaw Township has become one of the most senior members of the party to resign following its decision to engage with the military junta’s State Administration Council (SAC). 

A local people’s administrative body formed by deposed parliamentarians in Arakan State’s Gwa Township is not legitimate, according to a member of the military-run Arakan State Administration Council. 

U Nyi Pu, the detained former Arakan State chief minister who has been charged with incitement under Section 505(b) of the Penal Code, appeared via video link for a court hearing in Sittwe on March 4. 

It’s been just over a month since the Myanmar military (Tatmadaw) seized power, upending political calculations across spectrums ideologically and geographically. Here DMG has compiled a timeline of the coup and its aftermath as seen from Arakan State’s perspective, for those both in the region and beyond. 

Internally displaced people (IDPs) at a camp in a Ponnagyun Township industrial zone are facing water scarcity, and are hoping for water donations from charitable organisations to see them through the meagre times.

Lawsuits have been filed against three residents of Taungup Township, Arakan State, who were detained over a protest on February 28 and charged with two offences, family members said. 

Police arrested three residents of Taungup Township on Sunday morning including a member of the Arakan League for Democracy (ALD), according to an official of a party concerned and local residents.

The prominent Arakanese politician Dr. Aye Maung, who was recently released from prison as part of a mass amnesty by the military government, has embarked on a multi-township tour of Arakan State. 

The military-run Arakan State Administration Council has warned residents of a recently reinstated requirement to inform local authorities of guests who stay overnight at their homes, saying legal action will be taken against those who fail to do so.

Members of the Arakan Front Party (AFP) leadership including Dr. Aye Maung have not been allowed to officially resign from the Arakan National Party (ANP) by the latter, so they have sought assistance from the military-appointed Union Election Commission (UEC), AFP officials said.

The reconstituted Union Election Commission (UEC), formed by the military junta’s State Administration Council (SAC), met with several political parties in Naypyidaw on February 26.