Graffiti for Aung San Su Kyi: People in Need will commemorate the sixty-fifth birthday of a Burmese dissident in Prague

Graffiti wall in the center of Prague at Těšnov will be decorated by a large portrait of imprisoned Burmese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Su Kyi from this Friday. People will be able to leave a short note and a birthday wish on the wall as well. Public happening organized by People in Need will be held on Friday June 18, 2010 at 5pm at Těšnov, Prague 1 (at the graffiti wall near tram stop Těšnov). A photo from the event will be sent to Czech, European and Burmese exile media and also to Su Kyi as an expression of Czech support. People in Need want to call the attention to the violations of human rights in one of the most severe authoritarian regimes of present time.[…]

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

Summary of current situation

There are a total of 2,157 political prisoners in Burma. This is an overall decrease of 42 in comparison to last month’s figure of 2,199 . In May 3 activists were arrested, 2 sentenced and 1 political prisoners was released.
Since the protests in August 2007 leading to September’s Saffron Revolution, a total of 1,159 activists have been arrested and are still in detention.[…]

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

Summary of current situation

There are a total of 2,171 political prisoners in Burma. This is an overall increase of 14 in comparison
to last month’s figure of 2,157. In June, no activists were arrested and no political prisoners were
released. The AAPP also received information about activists who were arrested and released before
June 2010, and this retroactive information explains why there is actually an overall increase of 14
this month[…]

A Political Prisoner Passed Away in Myingyan Prison

We, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma), have learnt that Ko Kyaw Soe passed away in Myingyan Prison on the morning of 19 May 2010, at age 39. He is the 144th political prisoner to die in prison, in Burma. AAPP expresses its deepest condolences to the family of Kyaw Soe (aka) Kyaw Kyaw Soe (aka) Jeffery.[…]

A Political Prisoner’s Mother Died after Her Visit to Her Son

We, the members of the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners-Burma (AAPPB), were informed that a political prisoner’s mother died after her visit to her son. Daw Hla Hla Myint, mother of Mya Than Htike (aka) Tayzar, passed away at the age of 66 on 15 May, 2010 after her visit to her son in Taungoo prison due to the extremely hot weather. AAPP also expresses it deepest condolences for Mya Than Htike and family members for their loss.[…]

Monthly Chronology of Political Prisoners in Burma – April 2010

Summary of current situation

There are a total of 2,199 political prisoners in Burma. This is an overall increase of 13 in comparison to last month’s figure of 2,186. In April, 12 activists were arrested and 3 political prisoners were released. The AAPP also received information about activists who were arrested and released before April 2010, and this retroactive information explains why there is actually an overall increase of 13 this month.[…]

CSW Calls for Urgent Action to Provide Medical Treatment for Burmese Political Prisoner Ko Mya Aye

Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) today called on the military regime in Burma to provide proper medical treatment to political prisoners, including Ko Mya Aye, one of the leaders of 88 Generation Students Group, who led protests in 1988 and again in 2007. CSW has also urgedthe international community to intervene in his case […]

Burmese Political Prisoner Ko Mya Aye Denied Medical Treatment – Now On Death Row

Ko Mya Aye, one of the leaders of 88 Generation Students Group, which led protests in 1988 and again in 2007, is being denied access to proper medical treatment he urgently needs for a heart condition.

On 9th of April he was moved from Loikaw Prison in Karenni State to Taungyi Prison in Shan State. Both prisons are many miles from emergency medical care he will need if he has another heart attack, and too far away for family to make regular visits. […]

After Cyclone, Repress Impedes Civil Society and Aid

Humanitarian Space Across Country Again Narrowing Ahead of 2010 Polls

The Burmese government continues to deny basic freedoms and place undue restrictions on aid agencies despite significant gains in rehabilitating areas devastated by Cyclone Nargis two years ago, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today […]

Thingyan Bombing Shows Instability Under SPDC Rule

On 15 April 2010, a string of bomb explosions in Rangoon brutally interrupted the city’s Thingyan festivities, leaving 170 civilians injured and killing 10. The three blasts rocked the city at 3pm in a lakeside park pavilion sponsored by Than Shwe’s grandson. While not entirely unprecedented in a country marked by civil unrest, the recent bombings were the deadliest since those on 7 May 2005, which resulted in 19 deaths and over 150 injured.[…]