30th June and 1st July, 2021

A total of 2,342 detainees, including seven journalists, were released on 30 June, a day after the junta dropped the charges against 24 artists. Many of those released were charged under Section 505 (a) and spent more than 120 days in prisons. A five-year-old kid, who was held hostage by the junta troops in Mogok after failing to arrest his father, has been released as well. However, according to a leaked official letter on social media, the junta has instructed the prisons not to release the CDM civil servants and NLD members.

The AAPP, which is compiling a list of political prisoners, said the military council was not making any positive changes but was seeking international recognition at the upcoming UN General Assembly in September. Netizens are urging the public not to thank the junta for doing so and calling to focus on addressing the psychological trauma of the released prisoners. About 3,000 detainees remain in prisons, and the Burma Associated Press reported that more detainees may be released on 3 July, the coup leader's birthday.

Eleven Yangon-based underground groups announced on 30 June that they had merged into the Yangon Urban Guerrillas (YUG) to overthrow the military council. They will abide by the NUG's guidelines and carry out revolutionary activities without harming the people, the statement said. Many netizens have praised Yangon-based groups for their secrecy and harming the junta troops and its administration.

Since April, its twenty-seven comrades were killed in about 30 clashes with the junta troops in Sagain Region, the People's Defense Forces (Kani Township) reported. 20 junta members and four members of the CNDF were killed in a two-hour fighting in Falam Township, Chin State, on 29 June, according to the CNDF’s statement.

The RCSS Chairman Gen. Yawd Serk has sent a letter of resignation as the interim leader of the PPST, a coalition of ethnic armed organizations that have signed the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement. After the KNU’s resignation as the leader, the RCSS took over as leader of the PPST for two years.

The junta-controlled Myanmar embassy in Australia has sent a letter to Myanmar scholarship students in Australia and New Zealand urging them to sign a confession letter stating that they do not support the CDM movement and post anything against the junta on social media, ABC News reported on 29 June. Australian politicians urged their government to condemn the action, saying it interferes Australia's internal affairs and violates human rights. Eleven CDM Myanmar diplomats from the United States and Switzerland are preparing to form a front against the junta, Myanmar Now reported. There are now 20 CDM Myanmar diplomats in seven countries.