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Political Prisoners Need Not Be Forgotten
On 25 May, 2016, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) and the Former Political Prisoners Society (FPPS) released a joint-report entitled “‘After release I had to restart my life from the beginning’: The experiences of ex-political prisoners in Burma and challenges to reintegration.” Based on information provided by 1,621 former political prisoners, the report exposes the mistreatment and abuse – including the use of torture – that has proliferated Burma’s prison system […]
“After release I had to restart my life from the beginning” The Experiences of Ex-political Prisoners in Burma and Challenges to Reintegration
Since 1962, between 7,000 and 10,000 political prisoners have been imprisoned in Burma. Whilst a multitude of anecdotal records exist, there is very little comprehensive data concerning the torture and mistreatment experienced by political prisoners within Burma’s interrogation centers and jails […]
AAPP and FPPS launch report entitled “After Release I Had to Restart My Life from the Beginning”
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (“AAPP”) and the Former Political Prisoners Society (“FPPS”) has today – 25 May 2016 – published a report entitled, ‘“After release I had to restart my life from the beginning[…]”
• • •AAPP and FPPS Call for the release of all Political Prisoners before the Signing of the National Ceasefire Agreement and the 2015 General Election
Assistant Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) (AAPP) and Former Political Prisoners Society (FPPS) jointly call for the release of all political prisoners prior to the signing of the National Ceasefire Agreement and the 2015 General Election, if national peace and reconciliation is to take effect […]
• • •၂၀၁၅ ခုႏွစ္ အေထြေထြေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ႏွင့္ တႏိုင္ငံလံုးပစ္ခတ္တိုက္ခိုက္မႈ ရပ္စဲေရးသေဘာတူစာခ်ဳပ္ လက္မွတ္မေရးထိုးမွီ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ားလႊတ္ေပးရန္ ေတာင္းဆိုျခင္း
မိမိတို႔ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ားကူညီေစာင့္ေရွာက္ေရးအသင္းႏွင့္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေဟာင္းမ်ားအဖြဲ႔တို႔သည္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအတြင္းရွိ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ားအေရးႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ျ ခင္း၊ အခြင့္ အေရးမ်ားမွန္ကန္စြာရရွိေရးႏွင့္ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးတို႔အတြက္ အစဥ္တစိုက္ ေဆာင္ရြက္လွ်က္ရွိပါသည္ […]
• • •Presidential Amnesty does little to Liberate Burma’s Political Prisoners
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) and the Former Political Prisoners Society (FPPS) are greatly disappointed at the release of only a handful of political prisoners yesterday, among thousands of criminal offenders set free in the amnesty […]
• • •2015 Palm Campaign: “Even Though I’m Free I Am Not” – Extended in Light of the Recent Mass Arrests of Peaceful Protestors
Today – March 13, 2015 – the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) and the Former Political Prisoners Society (FPPS) announce the extension of the 2015 Palm Campaign in light of the recent violent government crackdowns and mass arrests of at least 127 peaceful protestors […]
• • •Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) and Former Political Prisoners Society (FPPS) Documentation Project Interim Report: February 2015
To date, government efforts to assist former political prisoners (FPPs) to acclimatize and reintegrate into society have been largely nonexistent in Burma. The effects of this inaction have, and continue to be hugely detrimental for the FPPs, their families, and for transitional justice efforts in the country. This inaction has become even more pressing since the government of Burma began releasing hundreds of political prisoners1 in a wave of amnesties following the 2011 political reforms […]
• • •2015 Palm Campaign: “Even Though I’m Free I Am Not”
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) and the Former Political Prisoner Society (FPPS) are calling on supporters from across the world to take photographs of their participation in our 2015 Palm Campaign. The campaign aims to show the Government of Burma, in the run up the 2015 elections, that the international community stands in solidarity with political prisoners, and demands lasting reform in Burma […]
• • •Joint Statement for 67th Annivesary of Independence Day of Burma (Myanmar)
January 4, 2015 is the 67th anniversary of the Independent Day of Union of Burma (Myanmar). However, the promises made to the people of Burma have not yet been fulfilled. The basic essence of independence is still being denied to them and in fact they are losing their basic rights, along with their personal security. Although independence has existed for almost seven decades, there has been lack of opportunities for people to create their own fortune, live securely and work for the benefit and improvement of their country and people.
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