Burmese Activists Still Remain In Jail – Free Shwe Htoo!

Burma Campaign UK today strongly urged Jeremy Browne MP, British Foreign Office Minister with responsibility for Burma, to pressure the military backed government to agree to the formation of a joint domestic and international board with the involvement of the UN, to investigate how many political prisoners remain in Burma’s jails […]

Revisiting Human Rights in Myanmar

On 23 May 2012, Amnesty International concluded its first official visit to Myanmar since 2003. This report illustrates Amnesty’s general impressions of the current human rights situation, and looks at five specific topics: political imprisonment, rule of law, ethnic minorities, accountability, and economic, social and cultural rights.

Annual Report 2012: Myanmar

The government enacted limited political and economic reforms, but human rights violations and violations of international humanitarian law in ethnic minority areas increased during the year. Some of these amounted to crimes against humanity or war crimes […]

Burma: Allow Early Release of 3 Political Prisoners Facing Imminent Threats to Life Due to Critical Health Conditions

The health conditions of 3 political prisoners in Burma have entered a critical stage, with the 3 inmates now facing imminent threats to their life if they continue to be held in adverse prison conditions. To prevent any further declines in their health, AAPP urgently requests the government of Burma to immediately allow Phyo Wai Aung, Sunny also known as San Shar, and Mira Mauth also known as Mayra Math early medical leave from prison on humanitarian grounds […]

Burma: Release Critically Ill Phyo Wai Aung Without Delay

An Open Letter from the Asian Human Rights Commission to the President of Burma, Thein Sein.

Dear Mr. President:

You will be aware that the case of 32-year-old Phyo Wai Aung, accused of involvement in the April 2010 bombing of the Burmese New Year’s water festival in Yangon, has attracted a great deal of attention both in your home country and abroad […]

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 […]

Democracy Activists Remain in Jail – Free Aye Aung!

Burma Campaign UK today urged Jeremy Browne MP, British Foreign Office Minister with responsibility for Burma, to push the military-backed government in Burma to investigate the numbers of remaining political prisoners in Burma […]

Win Mra, Chairman of the MNHRC says the Release of Political Prisoners is Not a Priority

According to an article published in the Irrawaddy, Win Mra, Chairman of the MNHRC said he has made some attempt to get remaining prisoners on the agenda, but acknowledged it’s not a government priority […]

Phyo Wai Aung: Catalogue of Human Rights Abuses Stain the Lawfulness of his Trial

Phyo Wai Aung, 31 years, a construction contractor arrested on 22 April 2010 on charges of being involved in the 15 April bombing in Rangoon, Burma that killed 10 and injured 168, is slated to formally receive his verdict on 8 May at 1p.m.

From the moment of his initial arrest, the case of Phyo Wai Aung has been profoundly marred by major human rights violations […]

No Political Prisoner Left Behind – Free Thant Zaw!

Burma Campaign UK today urged Jeremy Browne MP, British Foreign Office Minister with responsibility for Burma, to do more to persuade the military-backed government in Burma to release all remaining political prisoners in Burma […]