Complaint filed in Norway against Telenor for Myanmar sanctions violations

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Justice for Myanmar released a statement on 28 August announcing the joint filing with ICJ Norway of a complaint with Norwegian police against Telenor for alleged violation of sanctions on Myanmar.

The text of the statement is as follows.

Justice For Myanmar and ICJ Norway filed a complaint with the Norwegian police against Telenor and the management of its Myanmar operations for violating Norwegian sanctions from 2018 to 2022. The sanctions in question are the Myanmar Regulation (‘Myanmarforskriften’). The complaint was filed on December 19, 2024. 

The Norwegian broadcaster NRK has recently published extensively on the role of Telenor in Myanmar, including articles on nrk.no, Podcasts and on TV and radio, especially on the sharing of sensitive network traffic data with the junta after the coup attempt on 1 February 2021. Today NRK has also published an article and broadcast a radio interview about our complaint. 

The complaint details that Telenor violated sanctions in the following manner: