Beatings, electric shocks, sexual violence: women endure torture in Myanmar prisons

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Human Rights Watch reports that women in Myanmar prisons endure widespread torture, including beatings, electric shocks, sexual violence, and life-threatening medical neglect. This highlights the severe human rights abuses amid ongoing conflict following the 2021 military coup, which has resulted in large-scale displacement and casualties.

Female prisoners in Myanmar are subjected to widespread torture, sexual violence and life-threatening medical neglect, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday, underlining the chronic ill-treatment of thousands of detainees in the war-torn nation. Since the military seized power in a February 2021 coup, a protracted civil war ‌has gripped the impoverished Southeast Asian nation, devastating several regions and killing about 100,000 while displacing more than 3.5 million. In a report, the New...