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On Friday, the regime’s new governing body, the National Security and Peace Commission (NSPC), announced the resuspension of three provisions in the Law Protecting the Privacy and Security of Citizens on Friday.

The renewed suspension also removes the need for court approval to detain suspects for more than 24 hours while also permitting blanket surveillance of citizens.

Additionally, it gives authorities power to intercept private communications via mobile and internet providers and to seize and destroy private correspondence.

A junta flotilla has arrived in the embattled town of Bhamo in Kachin State with 11 of its original 17 supply vessels intact, after fighting its way 500 kilometers up the Irrawaddy River through repeated resistance ambushes.

The Arakan Army (AA) has refuted the Bangladesh army's assertions that there is a connection between the Arakan Army (AA) and the Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF), which is fighting for minority rights in Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts.

The chair of the military’s proxy Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), Khin Yi, met with prominent hardline nationalists in Yangon on Friday, urging them to help the regime carry out its plan to hold a general election in December.

Human trafficking, particularly of women and girls lured or forced into marriages in China, remains a widespread problem in Myanmar, a country still reeling from civil war after the military seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021.

Myanmar’s military leadership lifted a state of emergency more than four years after it took power in a coup, a necessary step for holding elections slated to be held later this year.

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Archived Reuters report mentioned in the article: https://archive.ph/jvsxh