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ARTISTS and Freedom of EXPRESSION

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Dance Troupe soon back : perform freely or not ?

Comedians Kyel Thee and Pan Thee, and the dancer Mya Sabai Ngone, members of the Thee Lay Thee Colourful Dance Troupe, will return to Burma on November 27. Comedian Godzilla, comedian Sein Thee, comedian Zee Thee and dancer Chaw Su Myo, other members

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Zarganar to host 'Art of Freedom Film Festival'

Burma’s independence day in January next year will be marked with the launch of the 'Art of Freedom Film Festival', organised by two of the country’s leading pro-democracy luminaries, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and comedian Zarganar. “The

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Pacifiche dimostrazioni di piazza

La legge che rende legali le "pacifiche dimostrazioni di piazza" è al vaglio della Camera alta del Parlamento birmano; se approvata - e ratificata dal Comitato di revisione - la norma avrebbe una portata storica per il Myanmar: dopo decenni

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Zarganar visiting 3 prisons

Zarganar, accompanied by comedians Godzilla, Sein Thee and Zee Thee, visited three prisons, donating food, medicine, money and magazines to prison authorities for political prisoners. The comedian and social rights activist, who was released recently

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Zarganar since his release (2011/10/12)

Fresh out of prison, Zarganar gives his first interview at Myitkyina airport, before having a hero's welcome at Rangoon airport where Mizzima reporter records a moving video. The Irrawaddy get an interview immediately, while Mizzima did his own

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(Jokes & puns) Fans messages to Zarganar

Brother Zarganar, So glad to see your healthy smiling face and we all hope to see your performance one day out of Burma or to read your book soon ! Welcome back to the world. We love you and like your jokes, particularly related to politic. This

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(Jokes & puns)

In Burma, “there are two types of lawyers, those who know the judge. And those who know the generals.” Heard about three Asean officials in a train to Mandalay ? “Why did you toss those giant lobsters into the trash bin?” the hungry Burmese asked

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ဇာဂနာကို တားျမစ္ထားမႈမ်ား ႐ုပ္သိမ္းရန္ PEN ေတာင္းဆို

နယူးေဒလီ(မဇၥ်ိမ) ။ ။ ေထာင္မွ လြတ္ေျမာက္လာသူ ဟာသပညာရွင္လည္းျဖစ္ ကဗ်ာဆရာလည္း ျဖစ္သူ ဇာဂနာအေပၚ အစိုးရမွ တားျမစ္ ပိတ္ပင္ထားမႈမ်ားအားလံုး ႐ုပ္သိမ္းေပးရန္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာရွိ စာေပႏွင့္ သတင္းသမား မ်ား လြတ္လပ္စြာ ထုတ္ေဖာ္ေျပာဆိုခြင့္အတြက္ လႈပ္ရွားသည့္

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Zarganar's RELEASE : infos, interviews, video, media and links...

ZarganarBlog is waiting news about other Nargis volunteers prisoners + reporters. Many thanks to all political, artists, media, activists, individuals... who support the Free Zarganar Campaign these last years. ZARGANAR's opinion, Zarganar said,

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Zarganar to embark on prison tour

Renowned Burmese comedian Zarganar who was released from jail last week says he will soon set off on a trip around the country to visit the nearly 1,700 political prisoners not included in the controversial amnesty. The popular performer said that he

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Michelle Yeoh and Luc Besson : 'the best news'

"The release of Zarganar is a joyful news and we hope that there will be more people like him because there are too many prisoners, political prisoners still in there," said actress Michelle Yeoh, who plays Aung San Suu Kyi. "We hope

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Zarganar thanks to all those who campaigned on his behalf.

Zarganar's friend, the painter and performance artist Htein Lin, managed to talk to him last night, and Zarganar passed on his thanks to all those who campaigned on his behalf. I caught up with him on the phone at fellow actor Zin Waing's house. I

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(Jokes & puns) NATO approach = No Action Talk Only

After being released on Wednesday from the remote Myitkyina Prison in northern Burma, the comedian cum activist known as Zarganar was put on a flight back to Rangoon. Within minutes after his arrival at the airport, he was lampooning President Thein

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Liberi decine di detenuti politici, anche l’attore Zarganar

Fra i “prigionieri politici” già liberi vi è il celebre attore e regista Zarganar (nella foto), che ha lasciato in mattinata il carcere di Myitkyina (Stato settentrionale Kachin): “Non sono affatto felice – ha dichiarato il popolare artista all’Ap –

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Censorship and Registration Division should be shut down

In the 1950s and early 1960s, Burma published credible and respectful newspapers and had the highest standards for professional journalists in Southeast Asia. I think it is now time to restore our credibility. The government should encourage it and

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"2000 blue shirts" for prisoners of conscience release

This Operation is : collect 2000 blue shirts (traditional uniform for Burmese prisoners) and send them, every day, to Myanmar embassies. Each blue shirt is named with a prisoner of conscience name, writen on the back with the word

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Poets slam in front of Burmese embassies to release of jailed poets

A Washington DC-based collective (known as Split This Rock),will protest in front of Burmese embassies in the US capital tomorrow to demand the release of jailed poets in Burma. “It is precisely because poetry refuses to be packaged and manipulated

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သီးေလးသီး အဖဲြ႔၀င္တခ်ဳိ႕ ရန္ကုန္ျပန္ေရာက္

"က်ေနာ္တို႔ ယံုၾကည္ခ်က္နဲ႔ ျပန္တာပါ၊ က်ေနာ္တို႔ကလည္း လက္ရွိ အစိုးရသစ္ကုိ ယံုၾကည္ သလို၊ အစိုးရသစ္ကလည္း က်ေနာ္တို႔ကုိ ယံုၾကည္မွာပါ၊ အဲဒါေၾကာင့္ က်ေနာ္တို႔က ဖမ္းဆီးမယ္လို႔ ေတြးလည္း မေတြးပါဘူး၊ ထင္လည္း မထင္ဘူး" ဟု သီးေလးသီး အဖြဲ႔မွ လူရႊင္ေတာ္

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Comedy Troup back in Rangoon, soon visiting Zarganar in Myitkyina prison

Four members of an exiled Burmese comedy troupe flew to Rangoon on Sunday, The group, known as Thee Lay Thee, is the brainchild of Burma's most famous comedian, Zarganar, who supported anti-government protests in 2007 and is currently serving a

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09/09 Gathering for the release of Hla Hla Win, Burmese political prisoner

Hla Hla Win turns 27 today, August 29 2011. She was sentenced on September 11 2009, just after the anniversary of the 2007 Saffron Revolution, after being arrested for interviewing a monk in a monastery in central Burma. Two years ago, Hla Hla Win,

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