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Posts Tagged ‘Political Prisoners’ (426 found)
‘Going back to the old ways’: A new generation of prisoners of conscience in Myanmar
A new Amnesty International briefing – ‘Back to the old ways’ – exposes how repression has drastically picked up pace over the past two years, in stark contrast to official claims that not a single person is imprisoned for peacefully exercising their rights […]
Myanmar: Almost 100 Prisoners of Conscience Behind Bars Ahead of Elections Following Intensifying Repression
Myanmar’s authorities have been locking up and harassing scores of peaceful activists as part of an intensifying and far-reaching crackdown ahead of November’s elections, Amnesty International said as it launched a new campaign to free prisoners of conscience today […]
• • •British Government Abandons British Political Prisoner in Burmese Jail
Burma Campaign UK today accused Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire MP of failing in one of his most fundamental duties, the support and protection of British citizens overseas. Hugo Swire, the Foreign Office Minister with responsibility for Burma, has abandoned Philip Blackwood, a British political prisoner serving hard labour in Burma’s notorious Insein Jail […]
• • •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 […]
• • •AAPP and FPPS call for the Release of the Graffiti Students
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) and the Former Political Prisoners Society (FPPS) express great concern over the treatment of student activists Naing Ye Wai, Aung San Oo, Jit Tu and Nyan Lin Htet who are currently being held in solitary confinement in punishment cells in Obo prison as a result of the recent hunger strike they launched in response to the denial of their request for bail to attend their exams […]
• • •Burma: Land Rights Activists Are Newest Political Prisoners
(Bangkok) – Burmese authorities should immediately stop using abusive laws on association and expression to halt the activities of land rights activists, Human Rights Watch said today. The recent arbitrary arrest of a prominent land rights advocate in Karen State exemplifies the government’s persecution of vocal opponents of land grabs by officials and their business associates […]
• • •End of Mission Statement Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar
I conclude my third official visit to the country as Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar as the country is coming to grips with the scale of destruction and loss of human life caused by the floods. I conveyed my deepest sympathies and profound sadness to all those I met during the mission and wish to renew those sentiments publicly now and particularly to the families of the victims and all those who have been affected by this disaster […]
• • •Five Myanmar Journalists Freed from Prison as Part of Mass Amnesty
Bangkok, July 31, 2015–Five journalists jailed on anti-state charges in Myanmar were released on Thursday in a presidential amnesty of nearly 7,000 prisoners, according to news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the journalists’ release but calls on Myanmar authorities to release all other journalists imprisoned in the country […]
• • •Political Prisoner Releases Welcome but also Highlights Return to Than Shwe Approach
Burma Campaign UK today welcomed the release of around 13 political prisoners as part of an amnesty given by President Thein Sein to almost 7,000 prisoners. 11 of the political prisoners released were cases that Burma Campaign UK has been actively campaigning on […]
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