The release of political prisoners, who could number as many as 1,700, is a pre-condition for ending Burma's isolation by the international community. The issue was raised repeatedly by William Hague, the British foreign secretary, during a visit to
PRISONERS of conscience
ႏိုင္ငံေရးက ဦးစားေပး နံပါတ္တစ္ပါ
Saturday, January 7 2012
ႏိုင္ငံေရးျပက္လုံးမ်ားေၾကာင့္ လြန္ခဲ့သည့္ ႏွစ္ ၂၀ေက်ာ္ကပင္ လူသိမ်ားလာခဲ့သည့္ လူရႊင္ေတာ္ ကိုသူရ (ခ) ဇာဂနာ၊ ျမစ္ႀကီးနား အက်ဥ္းေထာင္မွလြတ္ေျမာက္လာျပီး ႏွစ္ရက္အၾကာတြင္ ၎အက်ဥ္းက်ခဲ့စဥ္ကာလမ်ားအေၾကာင္းႏွင့္ အနာဂတ္အစီအစဥ္မ်ားကို ျမန္မာတိုင္း(မ္)
Colonel Saw Lwin's interview, after his release
Saturday, January 7 2012
How did your release come about, and did you have to sign any agreements ? I was released under the commutation. Even without the commutation, I would have been released from prison in the next year. None of us needed to sign pledges. But one thing I
UK. Release of all political detainees is the price for lifting sanctions.
Friday, January 6 2012
On the first visit by a UK foreign secretary to Burma for 55 years, he said that releasing all detainees would be the price for lifting sanctions. His counterpart Wunna Maung Lwi promised that changes in Burma were "irreversible". But he
Independence Amid Criticism
Thursday, January 5 2012
Burma is marking the 64th anniversary of its independence from Britain Wednesday, amid criticism that the government's recent clemency program is not doing enough for political prisoners. President Thein Sein, in a statement commemorating
Disappunto e frustrazione
Wednesday, January 4 2012
Il presidente del Myanmar Thein Sein ha firmato un ordine di clemenza nei confronti dei detenuti per festeggiare il 64mo anniversario dell’indipendenza del Paese, ma di portata molto più limitata rispetto quanto ci si attendeva. Attivisti per i
Reduction in prisoners’ sentences : not an amnesty
Tuesday, January 3 2012
Burmese President Thein Sein announced a reduction in prisoners’ sentences on Monday to coincide with the country’s 64th Independence Day. Under the order, death row inmates’ sentences will be commuted to life imprisonment; those serving more than a
11 journalists and writers still languish in prison
Sunday, January 1 2012
As 2011 comes to an end, 11 Burmese journalists and writers still languish in prison for trying to exercise basic human rights. An updated list by the Southeast Asian Press Alliance (Seapa) showed the list contains journalists, photographers, a
Biography (part 2)
Sunday, January 1 2012
During the 1988 uprising, Zarganar was arrested for being an "instigator" and sent to the notorious Insein prison for a year. After his release he was arrested again during the 1990 elections for giving political speeches and sentenced to
Zarganar's biography
Sunday, January 1 2012
Born 27 January 1961 to a political and intellectual family in Yangon, the well-known writers Kyi Oo and Nan Nyunt Swe. The young boy accompanied his parents on speaking tours where he used to entertain people by giving talks and doing imitations,
ယခုလက္ရွိ ႏုိင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသား ၁၅၇၂ ဦး။ ထုိအထဲမွ ၉၁၈ ဦး သည္ မည္သည့္ေထာင္မ်ားတြင္ ရွိေနသည္ကုိ စံုစမ္းအတည္ျပဳၿပီး
Saturday, December 24 2011
ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား ကူညီေစာင့္ေရွာက္ေရးအသင္း (ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ)၊ ေအေအပီပီ သည္ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး၊ ဒီမုိကေရစီေရးႏွင့္ အမ်ိဳးသား ျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရးအတြက္ လုပ္ေဆာင္ရင္း မတရား ဖမ္းဆီးအက်ဥ္းခ် ခံခဲ့ရသည့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားတစ္ဦးခ်င္းစီ၏ အေသးစိတ္အခ်က္အလက္
1572 political prisoners - 918 documented (AAPPB)
Saturday, December 24 2011
The list of 1,572 political prisoners is available on the AAPP website (aappb.org) and includes political prisoners whose current whereabouts have been verified and those whose locations are still under investigation. There are two stages to the
VIDEOS and PICTURES (2011)
Friday, December 23 2011
VIDEOS VIDEOS and PICTURES (2010) 2011. December 22 © DVB Zarganar's Interview to DVB in Bangkok 2011. December 22 © Voice of America Zarganar's Interview to VOA in Bangkok 2011. December 22 © xx Zarganar & ex political prisoners' donation at
National Human Rights Commission work
Friday, December 16 2011
Burma’s first National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) began work in October, and has since become the focal point of aggrieved Burmese who use the body to file complaints of human rights abuses carried out by state actors. The group has also been
Why political prisoners are subject of bargaining ?
Monday, December 5 2011
At this juncture, one of the most important decisions for the government to take, definitely, is the release of all political prisoners. This is a decision that, unlike the situation in border areas and others that may require additional measures,
Zaw Lin Htun, a political prisoner released in October, dies.
Thursday, December 1 2011
A man sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2003, and whose family warned two months ago that he was in the advanced stages of liver cancer, has died at his home in Pegu division. Zaw Lin Htun was released from Insein prison in Rangoon in the October
Min Ko Naing' : I don't think I will be released anytime soon
Wednesday, November 23 2011
“I don't think I will be released anytime soon. Tell my friends not to sacrifice for my freedom,” jailed political activist Min Ko Naing asked his family to communicate to his colleagues and supporters on Monday. Min Ko Naing is a leader of the 88
‘၁’ ေျခာက္လံုးေန႔က ေဂ်မီ၊ ေဇယ်ာေသာ္၊ ဇာဂနာနဲ႔ ရန္ရန္ခ်မ္း
Sunday, November 13 2011
2011.11.13 Lunswe Blog
Honouring NLD member Maung Ko’s death
Thursday, November 10 2011
Comadian Zarganar pays respect to NLD central executive committee member Win Tin at a ceremony offering food to monks and others. The ceremony was held on November 9, 2011, at Inya Kan Phyar Monastery on University Avenue Road in Rangoon to
Su Su Nway's interview to Burma Voices
Sunday, November 6 2011
She is a well-known activist in Burma and has been actively involved in issues relating to labour rights, child soldiers and forced labour. In 2007 she was sentenced to eight years in prison for treason. She was released early on a government amnesty
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