NP News - May 4

The State Administration Council (SAC) has commuted altogether 38 death sentence prisoners to life imprisonment. 

The announcement was made yesterday marking the Buddhist Vesak Day.

 The 38 prisoners with death penalty under Article 204 subsection (A) of the Constitution were commuted to life imprisonment. 

In July 2022, the terrorist masterminds: Jimmy and Phyo Zayar Thaw, and terrorists Hla Myo Aung and Aung Thura Zaw were executed.

Phyo Zayar Thaw and Jimmy sponsored the terrorists to commit terror attacks; and he was found acting as an accomplice in many crimes including - more than 80 times of exploding many state-owned buildings and government offices, estimately 60 times of exploding and destroying public sites, and exploding and blowing up the religious buildings twice, schools three-times, and many other places; so he was charged under Section 50 (i) of the Penal Code.

The grouped lawbreakers interrogated and tortured the female victim (Win Thandar Swe) alleged as 'Informer/Dalan (traitor)', and captived the victim in the house by locking from outside.

The July 2022 capital punishment is the first judicial execution in Myanmar within 30 years. 

To mark the Holy Buddhist Vesak Day, the SAC also released more than 2000 prisoners from different prisons under the Penal Code 505 Section (A),