Final push on political prisoners needed
(IRIN) – Human rights groups are calling for the final release of hundreds of political prisoners still being held in Myanmar. “We urgently request that all remaining prisoners be released in accordance with Myanmar’s claim of moving towards freedom and democracy,” Mint Mint, a spokesman for the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPPB) told IRIN [...]
Myanmar activists were delighted upon seeing their 90 political comrades released from jail as granted in the amnesty program of the government. However, they were upset and frustrated knowing that hundred of political prisoners were left behind and still perishing in jail. Democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party confirmed the report that among the [...]
Continue reading …
Aye Aung who’s still in the prison cell completing a punishment of 59 years jail term but was lowered to 29 years on his violation of the emergency act, organizing student groups, and unauthorized giving of leaflets. His condition is so disheartening, recalls his father Thaung Sein who was so frustrated upon learning that his [...]
Continue reading …
Myanmar officially released a number of high profile political prisoners of well known dissidents, news reporters, and former leaders last Friday under a major prisoner amnesty with the increasing chain of reforms by the government. The “88 Generation Students” who were part of the released prisoners were the front liners in the failed coup attempt [...]
Continue reading …
With the release of several prisoners in Myanmar and eleven political prisoners last Tuesday, some were disgusted and dismayed for the reason that the government’s grant for clemency were not met leaving other political detainees suffer for more long years behind bars. In making a remarkable 64th anniversary of Independence, President Thein Sein signed a [...]
Continue reading …
Myanmar military government will soon free more political prisoners as the holidays come January 4, 2012 which is on Myanmar’s Independent Day and February 12, 2012, that is according to some officials of the lower house of parliament as reported by Agence Frence-Presse. Although it was not clearly stated how many political prisoners will be [...]
Continue reading …
Khun Htun Oo suffers from knees pain after his routine medication was running out on the way to Taungoo prison which took him 5 days from Butao, the family told Kawli news. He stays in prison with poor health condition as he has been suffering several diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease [...]
Continue reading …
Drawing a crowd of about 500 people with calls for peace and the immediate release of political prisoners, five Buddhist monks staged a rare protest in Myanmar Tuesday, witnesses said. The monks locked themselves in a building on a religious compound in the central town of Mandalay and were using loudspeakers to spell out their [...]
Continue reading …Denied drinking water for a week were 15 political prisoners in Myanmar on a hunger strike in Yangon’s Insein Prison while some have been placed in dog cells, Amnesty International said Friday. Prison authorities may become responsible for the rapid deaths of the hunger strikers due to dehydration for depriving prisoners of drinking water as [...]
Continue reading …Shin Gambira is a jailed monk in Myanmar, he is imprisoned for his part in the street demonstrations in 2007. Assaulted repeatedly during a prison transfer and at the Khandi Prison over the course of about a month, and as a consequence, he has been suffering from head and back injuries causing a lot of [...]
Continue reading …