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    Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) receives 2023 Geuzen Medal
    January 27, 2023in Breaking, Coup, News0by English Editor
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    Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) receives 2023 Geuzen Medal

    The Dutch Geuzen Medal for 2023 is being awarded to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP). Since the 2021 coup, more than 17,000 have been arrested and 2,894 people…

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    Prison reform put on the back burner
    January 21, 2018in Lead Story, News, Politics521by REUTERS
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    Prison reform put on the back burner

    A new prison law was discussed in parliament in 2015, but not passed. Nor has it been taken up by the NLD who took power in early 2016.

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    NLD has responsibility to define ‘political prisoners’: AAPP
    June 22, 2017in Lead Story, News, Politics120by YE MON
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    NLD has responsibility to define ‘political prisoners’: AAPP

    “They [NLD] should seek to propose a definition for what exactly constitutes a political prisoner.”

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    Blue Shirt Campaign calls for release of all political prisoners
    April 20, 2017in Lead Story, News, Politics89by LAY LAY MON
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    Blue Shirt Campaign calls for release of all political prisoners

    The campaign marks the third anniversary of the death of veteran journalist and former political prisoner Win Tin, who died on 21 April 2014.

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    NLD govt has released 457 political prisoners
    August 18, 2016in Lead Story, News, Politics252by DVB
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    NLD govt has released 457 political prisoners

    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.

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    New Zealander jailed in Burma to be released Friday
    January 22, 2016in Lead Story, News1190by ANGUS WATSON / DVB
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    New Zealander jailed in Burma to be released Friday

    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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    A Bittersweet Anniversary

    January 28, 2023by CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS
    Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) receives 2023 Geuzen Medal

    Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) receives…

    January 27, 2023by English Editor
    Opium Production Surging in Burma, states UNODC

    Opium Production Surging in Burma, states UNODC

    January 27, 2023by English Editor
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