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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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    NZ PM Key weighs in on Blackwood case
    November 24, 2015in Lead Story, News, Religion66by COCONUTS YANGON
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    NZ PM Key weighs in on Blackwood case

    “We have been doing some work on it. We have been looking at it, and we have been dealing with it,” Premier John Key said.

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    OPINION: Buddha Bar trio did not blaspheme
    October 11, 2015in Contributor, Law, Lead Story, News, Religion412by DR PAUL FULLER
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    OPINION: Buddha Bar trio did not blaspheme

    The case of Phil Blackwood, Tun Thurein and Htut Ko Ko Lwin has highlighted the issue of blasphemy and Buddhism. Buddhist scholar Dr Paul Fuller comments.

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    Release all 91 political prisoners, says Amnesty
    October 8, 2015in Human Rights, Lead Story, News, Politics314by COLIN HINSHELWOOD / DVB
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    Release all 91 political prisoners, says Amnesty

    Jailed for religious defamation, New Zealander Phil Blackwood is the sole foreigner on Amnesty International’s list of 91 prisoners of conscience in Burma.

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    Blackwood ‘malnourished, suffering mental stress’
    October 6, 2015in Law, Lead Story, News, Religion324by COLIN HINSHELWOOD / DVB
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    Blackwood ‘malnourished, suffering mental stress’

    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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    Buddha Bar trio sentenced to 2.5 years with hard labour
    March 17, 2015in Lead Story, News, Rangoon, Religion88by COLIN HINSHELWOOD / DVB
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    Buddha Bar trio sentenced to 2.5 years with hard labour

    New Zealander Phil Blackwood, and his Burmese partners Tun Thurein and Htut Ko Ko Lwin are each found guilty of defaming religion.

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