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No mass release of political prisoners – Thein Sein more hardline than Than Shwe?
Following an announcement of a limited prisoner amnesty in Burma, but no mass release of political prisoners, the new dictator, Thein Sein, is increasingly showing himself to be as or more hard-line than former dictator Than Shwe […]
• • •Burma: Prisoner ‘Amnesty’ Mocks Pledge to Improve Rights
The Burmese government’s decision to grant a one-year sentence reduction to all prisoners is a slap in the face to a senior United Nations’ envoy who had just called for the release of all political prisoners in Burma, Human Rights Watch said today […]
• •Punishment of Monk Political Prisoners Highlights Ongoing Abuse and Repression
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) has grave concerns for Ashin Sandar Dika, a monk political prisoner, after learning he has been placed in solitary confinement as a punishment for requesting adequate health care. Ahshin Sandar Dika is currently incarcerated […]
• • •Locked in, Tied up: Burma’s Disciplined Democracy
On 30 March 2011, the military regime’s long-running play ‘roadmap to democracy’ concluded almost eight years after its release. In the military stronghold of Naypyidaw, President-elect Thein Sein was sworn […]
• • •တရားဥပေဒစိုးမိုးေရးအတြက္ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္ထံေပးစာ
ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္ထံသို႕ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ ဒုတိယဥကၠ႒ ဦးတင္ဦးက ၂၀၁၁ ခုႏွစ္၊ ဧျပီလ ၅ ရက္ေန႕တြင္ စာအမွတ္ – ၀၂၈ (စည္း)/၀၄/၁၁ ျဖင့္ေပးပို႕ခဲ့ေသာ စာပါအေၾကာင္းအရာမ်ားကို အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ ဗဟိုအလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္အဖြဲ႕၏ […]
• • •AAPP has grave concerns for NLD member denied urgent medical treatment
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) has grave concerns for political prisoner, Ko Min Aung, after learning he has been denied urgent medical care for the past 11 months despite suffering from heart disease […]
• • •Resolution 16/24 – Situation of human rights in Myanmar
The full text of the United Nations Human Rights Council Resolution that calls for the release of political prisoners, freedom of information and association, an independent judiciary and political reconciliation, and also extends the mandate of UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Burma, Tomás Ojea Quintana.
• • •New Book Launched on the 11th Anniversary of the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma)
To mark the 11th anniversary of its founding, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma), known as AAPP, is launching a new book, titled, A Country of Heroes […]
• • •Burma Briefer No. 10: Political Prisoners in Burma – A Crime Against Humanity
[…] Most attention on possible war crimes and crimes against humanity taking place in Burma has focused on attacks and persecution on ethnic minorities, particularly crimes committed against the ethnic Karen, Karenni and Shan in Eastern Burma, and against the Rohingya in Western Burma, and the Chin in the Northwest. This briefing looks at an area which has so far not received much attention, the detention and treatment of political prisoners […]
• • •Political Prisoners in Burma – A Crime Against Humanity
Burma Campaign UK today publishes a new briefing, ‘Political Prisoners in Burma – A Crime Against Humanity’. The briefing finds, based on international law, that the detention and treatment of political prisoners in Burma should be investigated as a crime against […]
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