BURMA/MYANMAR: The Police Cannot Avoid Responsibility for the Torture to Death of a Man in Custody

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that the police force of Burma has dismissed several officers involved in the torturing to death of a 39-year-old man. Other officers have been either suspended from duty or transferred to different townships. Myo Myint Swe was tortured during interrogation over a murder while detained in police custody. He eventually died as a result of the abuse and the police tried to claim that he had a heart attack. The victim’s family are receiving little assistance by way of information from the police […]

Former Political Prisoners Appeal the President for Release of Ko Aye Aung and Other Political Prisoners

Former political prisoners appealed to President Thein Sein for the release of Ko Aye Aung who was sentenced 59 years imprisonment since 1999 for his participation in a protest in Rangoon […]

ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရက ၁၉၉၈ ခုႏွစ္တြင္ ဖမ္းဆီးခဲ့ၿပီး ပုဒ္မ ၅ (ည) ၊ ၁၇ (၂၀) ၊ ၁၇ (၁) တို႔ျဖင့္ ၁၉၉၉ ခုႏွစ္ ဇန္န၀ါရီ ၁၅ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ အင္းစိန္ေထာင္တြင္း အထူးတရားရံုးက ေထာင္ဒဏ္ ၅၉ ႏွစ္နဲ႔ အက်ဥ္းခ်ထားသူ ဒဂံု အေ၀းသင္တကၠသိုလ္၊ ရူပေဗဒ အထူးျပဳ […]