A married couple was reportedly among those executed on Monday, with five more facing the death penalty on Tuesday.
Myanmar’s military regime has executed two anti-coup activists and plans to execute five more on September 24, rights groups have said, urging action from the international community.
The death row couple Myanmar Maung Kaung Htet and his wife, Chan Myae Thu, were executed at 4 am on Saturday, Myanmar time, September 23, said Women’s Peace Network in a statement Monday.
The duo, the rights group says, were condemned “without due process and a fair trial” for their alleged roles in a parcel bomb attack on Yangon’s Insein Prison in October 2022.
It said five other democracy activists, Kaung Pyae Sone Oo, Zeyar Phyo, Hsann Min Aung, Kyaw Win Soe, and Myat Phyo Myint, are to be executed on Tuesday.
The five were sentenced in a secret trial in May 2023 to imprisonment since September 2021 for the fatal shooting of four police officers on a Yangon-bound train.
“The more people they kill, the bolder the junta becomes in carrying out the remaining sham death penalties against over 120 other detainees,” the Women’s Peace Network further.
