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ARTISTS and Freedom of EXPRESSION

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L’esercito birmano interrompe una manifestazione di cristiani Chin

L'esercito birmano ha fatto irruzione in un edificio dove si stava svolgendo l'incontro di una comunità cristiana protestante Chin; i militari hanno puntato le armi contro i fedeli presenti, tra i quali vi era anche un parlamentare dello Stato. Il

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AHRC calling for the release of religious leader

Asian Human Rights Commission is calling for the immediate release of religious leader Shin Nyarna. The monk was sentenced to 20 years in prison for ‘defiling the Buddhist religion’ after he criticised the country’s ruling officials for preventing

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The Amnesty Prison Art Show 2012 : clandestine works

The Amnesty Prison Art Show 2012 has something different for the viewing public—a remarkable collection of clandestine works made during incarceration by ex-political prisoners. “You may not see these kinds of paintings in other places,” said Sanny,

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HRW : new laws, what happens when Burmese attempt to use them ?

“There is a lot of excitement about changes in Burma these days, but the government shouldn’t be given credit for allowing some freedom just because none existed before. Instead, it should be pressed to make sure its laws meet international

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Will media freedom continue to progress in Burma ?

Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association (BMA), are concerned about other recent restrictions on media freedom reported by the exile media, which continue to demonstrate the importance of their role in covering developments inside

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Standing ovation for Zarganar in New York

Burmese comedian Zarganar received a standing ovation on Sunday night at Radio City Music Hall in New York when he joined a star-studded line-up in a fundraiser for Amnesty International. Known for his scything jokes about Burma's military generals,

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Moustache Brothers hope to enlighten the poor

After years of lampooning the junta, Burma’s Moustache Brothers aren’t ready to stop poking fun at the regime yet, despite dramatic changes that mean laughter is no longer such a risky business. With nothing more than their sharp wit, the

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Film 'The Lady' di Luc Besson in Italia

La Sezione Italiana di Amnesty International è lieta di conferire il patrocinio a “The Lady” e di sostenere l’azione di solidarietà “Send a message” perché, nelle parole del portavoce Riccardo Noury, “sempre più spesso, il cinema riesce a raccontare

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Monk Gambira expressed his “strong condemnation”

While the Burmese authorities seem to being reaching out to opposition political groups including pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, renewed tensions have surfaced between Naypyidaw and dissident monks in the country. On Sunday, the state-run media

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Popular abbot banned from preaching

The ban on Ashin Pyinnyar Thiha follows a one-year ban in 2011. The order was from the State Sangha Committee. “Someone gave me a copy of the letter that says they banned me until 2013,” he said. During the first year of the ban, on December 12 the

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Kachin artists for Kachin refugees

Well-known Kachin artists will perform at a concert in Rangoon on Feb. 25 to raise funds for fellow Kachin displaced by an ongoing conflict in northern Burma, according to event organizers. “When Kachin singers in Rangoon discussed about how they

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Two monasteries have been allowed to reopen

Two monasteries barricaded by Burmese authorities during the September 2007 monk-led uprisings have been allowed to reopen, despite apparent lingering concerns by the government that such sites remain hubs for political organising by the opposition.

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Literary events censored : lower-level officials do not obey ?

During the past month, township chiefs in Magway Region have not allowed seven planned literary events to be held, according to writers who tried to speak in the area. The writers had planned to talk about rebuilding the country, changing the mindset

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Zarganar to Mrs Clinton : This is the very start

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with three well-known Burmese activists including comedian Zarganar on Thursday in Washtington DC, Clinton greeted the Burmese comedian who was recently freed from prison, as well as National League for

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Poet and blogger Nay Phone Latt became a free man

Latt launched his blog from Rangoon in 2007 as a way to share poetry, news and his political and social commentary with the world. He soon garnered the attention and praise of international media outlets, which saw his blog as an invaluable source of

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Press freedom : “action will be taken”

PSRD director Tint Swe warned the editors of some of Burma's leading news journals last week that “action will be taken” against publications that don't abide by the board's guidelines, which include a ban on reporting subjects deemed sensitive to

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မန္တ​ေလး​ြမို့​တွင် အမျိုး​သား​ဒီမိုက​ေရစီအဖွဲ့​ချုပ်က ကာတွန်း​ြပပွဲ ြပုလုပ်

မန္တ​ေလး​တိုင်း​ အမျိုး​သား​ဒီမိုက​ေရစီအဖွဲ့​ချုပ်က ြကီး​မှူး​ကျင်း​ပတဲ့​ ကာတွန်း​ြပပွဲတရပ်ကို အခုလ ၂၀ ရက်က​ေန၂၁ ရက်အထိ ခင်း​ကျင်း​ြပသသွား​မှာ ြဖစ်ပါတယ်။ ြပပွဲမှာ ကွယ်လွန်သူ ကာတွန်း​ဆရာြကီး​ ဦး​ဘဂျမ်း​ရဲ့​ ကာတွန်း​လက်ရာ​ေတွ အပါအဝင် ြပည်တွင်း​က

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ရန်ကုန်ြမို့မှာ ဒီမိုကေရစီ ရသွားတဲ့ ခဏတာ

ပီးခဲ့တဲ့ အပတ်က ရန်ကုန်မှာ နိုင်ငံြခားသား ဧည့်သည်ေတွေရာ ြမန်မာနိုင်ငံသားေတွပါ အံ့ြသသွားေစေလာက်တဲ့ အြဖစ်အပျက် တခု ြဖစ်ခဲ့ပါတယ်။ အဲဒါကေတာ့ လွတ်လပ်ြခင်းအနုပညာ ဆိုတဲ့ ရုပ်ရှင်ပွဲေတာ်ကို ြပည်လမ်းေတာ်၀င်စင်တာမှာ ေအာင်ေအာင်ြမင်ြမင် ကျင်းပနုိင်ခဲ့ြခင်း

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Burma’s Pop Music girl band : creators, censors...and parents

With their sensual choreography and provocative outfits, the five members of Myanmar’s first girl band are pushing the limits of artistic acceptability in this socially conservative country. But when their parents call, asking why they are still not

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Creativity of filmmakers has never been lost

Despite the repression, the creativity of filmmakers in this country has never been lost; in fact, there are signs that the industry might flourish once again if freedom returns to Burma—at least that is the message gleaned from the uncensored

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