One former political prisoner describes a tiered system of abuse within Insein Prison, Burma’s most infamous correctional facility on the outskirts of Rangoon.
“They [NLD] should seek to propose a definition for what exactly constitutes a political prisoner.”
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Klaas Haijtema, 30, is alleged to have walked into a dharma hall during chanting, with his shoes on. He then pulled out the plug connected to the speaker.
A truck transferring female inmates between Prome and Thayet prisons in Pegu Division has crashed on a highway, leaving one dead.
The permanent secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs said 274 political cases had been closed in the first 100 days of the new government.
“I am sad as all this is happening just when I was due to be released,” said Gambira, speaking at the Thanlyin township court on Thursday.
The fresh charges against the former monk come just three days before his due date for release, after serving a six-month sentence on an immigration charge.
Lee reportedly questioned whether female inmates are being subjected to pregnancy tests, suggesting that this is a violation of human rights.
Phil Blackwood, a New Zealand national incarcerated in Rangoon’s Insein Prison since December 2014, was released in a Presidential Amnesty on Friday.
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Myat Nu Khine, an independent candidate in Pegu constituency, has been arrested and charged for her alleged involvement in a protest last year.
New Zealand bar-restaurant manager has lost over 30 kg in weight and needs to take anti-depressants while in Insein Prison, says family.
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Five journalists were among at least 13 political prisoners released as pardons are granted to 6,996 inmates across Burma in a presidential amnesty.
Report says Burma currently holds 163 political prisoners, adding that 442 non-detained activists are awaiting trial, 49 of whom were charged in May.
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A warrant for the arrest of nineteen-year-old Yadana Su Po Khine, also known as Po Po, was issued last month.
Activist groups AAPP and FPPO re-launch a photograph campaign calling for the release of the remaining political prisoners in Burma.
Four lawyers have refused to represent Phil Blackwood, a New Zealand citizen detained in Insein Prison on charges of insulting religion, because they believe the case is “too sensitive”.
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Three men, including a New Zealander, are charged under Burma’s Religion Act after posting a picture of Buddha as part of nightclub marketing.
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Activists Nay Myo Zin and Win Cho have been sentenced to three months imprisonment for leading a protest calling for farmers’ rights.
Burma has released seven political prisoners since it announced a presidential amnesty, but many more are expected in the days ahead.
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners-Burma and Former Political Prisoners Society will provide a certificate of honour and a donation of one million kyat to each of the families of some 50 political activists who died in Burmese prisons during the period of military junta rule since 1988.
Released on Friday from Insein prison after more than 10 years behind bars, Kyaw Ne Win urged the Burmese government to release not only all the political detainees, but other convicts “who deserve to be free”.
Former political prisoners hold a press conference for the first time in 23 years to reveal how they were subjected to physical and psychological torture in Insein prison.
Twelve factory employees, who are being held in remand after brawling with their supervisors, claim they are being treated unfairly and forced to work in Rangoon’s notorious prison
Phyo Wei Aung, who was controversially convicted of masterminding a bomb attack in Rangoon in 2010 but recently released from jail, has today appealed to Burma’s Supreme Court to have his guilty verdict overturned
Officials at Rangoon’s Insein prison beat a political prisoner, who was being transferred from Arakan state’s Sittwe prison to Pegu’s Tharawaddy prison, during a brief stopover at the facility on 31 July
Mahn Nyein Maung appears in Insein prison court facing a possible death sentence or life imprisonment as lawyer decries evidence
Thet Nwe underwent bouts of severe torture and was sent to a psychiatric ward twice during his term in Insein prison before his 13 January release
Nay Myo Zin, who became the first political prisoner of the new Burmese government, takes appeal to Supreme Court in Naypyidaw
Former army captain Nay Myo Zin yet to receive treatment for fractured pelvis but family is concerned at quality of prison hospital
Reports emerging that prison authorities have denied strikers drinking water and blocked family members from visiting Insein jail
