Myanmar: Political prisoners must be freed

On the third anniversary of the violent crackdown on the “Saffron Revolution”, Amnesty International calls on the Myanmar government to immediately and unconditionally free all political prisoners arrested for their peaceful activism.[…]

Burmese Political Leader’s case taken to International Court

The case of Ko Mya Aye, a leading pro-democracy leader incarcerated in Burma, now calling itself Myanmar, has been taken to court at the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention by the Burma Justice Committee.[…]

AAPP denounces inappropriate prison transfers of elderly Political prisoner, Gen. Hso Ten

The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) (AAPP) received information that General Hso Ten was transferred to three different prisons in one week, in a cruel ploy to further weaken the already sick and elderly political prisoner.

General Hso Ten, 74 years old, a Shan ethnic politician, is currently serving a 106 year prison sentence. He suffers from heart problems, diabetes and has cataracts. The authorities have repeatedly denied him adequate medical care[…]

Monthly Chronology of Burma’s Political Prisoners in Burma –July 2010

Summary of current situation

There are a total of 2,174 political prisoners in Burma. This is an overall increase of 3 in comparison to last month’s figure of 2,171. In July, 2 political prisoners were arrested, and 4 were released. This retroactive information explains why there is actually an overall increase of 3 this month.

Since the protests in August 2007, leading to September’s Saffron Revolution, a total of 1,169 activists have been arrested and are still in detention[…]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (025-2010)

ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္ –

* ခေမာက္ပုံ ပါတီတံဆိပ္ အသုံးျပဳျခင္းႏွင္႔ပတ္သက္၍ ကန္႕ကြက္သည္႔ၾကားမွ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲေကာ္မရွင္က အမ်ိဴးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအင္အာစု NDF ပါတီကို ျပည္ေထာင္စုေရြးေကာက္ပြဲေကာက္မရွင္က ႏုိင္ငံေရးမွတ္ပုံတင္ခြင္႔ျပဳလုိက္ သည္႔အေပၚ အမ်ိဴးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဴပ္ NLD က လက္မခံေၾကာင္း ရႈတ္ခ်လုိက္သည္။
* ေဒါက္တာတူးဂ်ာသည္ ကခ်င္လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးအဖြဲ႕ႏွင့္ ဆက္စပ္လွ်က္ရွိသျဖင့္ ေဒါက္တာတူးဂ်ာဦးေဆာင္ေသာ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္တုိးတက္ေရးပါတီ KSPP ကိုပါတီတည္ေထာင္ခြင့္ျပဳမည္မဟုတ္ေၾကာင္းအမွတ္ ၁ စက္မႈဝန္ၾကီး ဦးေအာင္ေသာင္းက ကခ်င္ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားကို ဇူလုိင္လ ၁၂ ရက္ေန႔က ေျပာၾကားလုိက္သည္။

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (024-2010)

In this week’s report you will find:

* According to a village peace and development council official, even though authorities have been providing national IDs for residents in Gwa Township, Arakan State, there are many local people who cannot afford the cost and the time to wait. Gwa Immigration Department, in two groups, has been providing national IDs for any resident who are over 18 years of age with 1000 kyat service fee for each person.

ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္ –

• ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္၊ ဂြျမိဳ႕နယ္၌ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတြင္ မဲေပးႏုိင္ရန္အတြက္ အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက ႏုိင္ငံသားစိစ္ေရးကဒ္ျပား ျပဳလုပ္ေပးေနေသာ္လည္း စရိတ္မတတ္ႏုိင္သူ ေဒသခံအမ်ားအျပား ရွိေနေၾကာင္း ေက်းရြာ ရယက လူၾကီးတစ္ဦးကေျပာသည္။

Burma’s Human Rights Record Up For Review

The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners has submitted its report to the UN Human Rights Council for the Universal Periodic Review of Burma. The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a new mechanism of the Human Rights Council (HRC) aimed at improving the human rights record of all 192 UN Member States […]

Nonviolence International Wishes Daw Aung San Suu Kyi a Bittersweet Birthday

Burmese opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi celebrated her 65th birthday under house arrest this past Saturday, but her supporters celebrated worldwide. Our own Michael Beer sang “Bittersweet Birthday” to the democratic leader on Capitol Hill during one such celebration.[…]

Resounding International Support for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on her 65th Birthday

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the world’s only detained Nobel Peace Laureate, spent her 65th birthday under house arrest in her Rangoon home on Saturday 19 June. Governments, Burmese communities, solidarity groups and individuals around the world held events to commemorate Daw Suu’s birthday, calling for her immediate release […]

Myanmar: UN Special Rapporteur calls for the immediate release of Aung San Suu Kyi

GENEVA – Statement by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Tomás Ojea Quintana:

“I urge the Government of Myanmar to heed the call of an independent United Nations human rights body to immediately release Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention recently adopted its sixth ‘Opinion’ on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, which has been made public.[…]