Myanmar Activist

Source: www.iht.com --- 35 days ago
A Japanese court granted refugee status to a pro-democracy musician from military-run Myanmar on Friday, saying he would face persecution if he returned to his country, Kyodo News agency said. ...

Source: www.iht.com --- 21 days ago
An Activist in Myanmar has been sentenced to two years of hard labor after gathering evidence for the United Nations about child soldiers and forced labor, a U.N. agency said Friday. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 18 days ago
The International Labour Office, the permanent secretariat of the International Labour Organization ILO, called on the Government of Myanmar to urgently review the sentence of U Thet Way and immediately release the Activist. SEARCH NZ JOBS Search ...

Source: www.un.org --- 19 days ago
The United Nations labour agency today expressed concern at the recent sentencing of an Activist in Myanmar to two years of hard labour, saying it raises questions about the honouring of an agreement between the Asian country and the agency. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 21 days ago
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Source: www.bignewsnetwork.com --- 16 days ago
Myanmar's longest-serving political prisoner has been released after the government announced an amnesty that saw more than 9,000 inmates freed in advance of elections planned for 2010. Win Tin, a 78... ...

Source: www.humanrightsdigest.org --- 22 days ago
An anti-government Activist leader in Myanmar remains at risk of torture following her arrest last Wednesday. Nilar Thein went into hiding more than a year ago after leading some of the initial anti-government protests in August 2007. She was taken to Aung Tha Pyay Detention Centre in Yangon (Rangoon, Myanmar’s largest city) for interrogation after her [...] ...

Source: globalnewsblog.com --- 17 days ago
Sentencing of Labour Activist in Myanmar (Burma) (Scoop.co.nz) The United Nations labour agency today expressed concern at the recent sentencing of an Activist in Myanmar to two years of hard labour, saying it raises questions about the honouring of an agreement between the Asian country and the agency. Cambodia, Thailand To Resume Border Talks Next [...] ...

Source: uscampaignforburma.org --- 26 days ago
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Source: www.iht.com --- 27 days ago
A prominent anti-government Activist in Myanmar arrested last week is at risk of torture, the human rights group Amnesty International said Saturday. ...

Source: jurist.law.pitt.edu --- 60 days ago
[JURIST] Detained Myanmarian democracy Activist Aung San Suu Kyi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] has met with a lawyer to discuss the legality of her detention, a spokesman for the National League for Democracy party said Sunday. This was apparently the first time in five years that Suu Kyi has been allowed to consult with a legal representative. In May, the ruling junta extended Suu Kyi's ...

Source: www.charlotteobserver.com --- 27 days ago
Two bombs exploded at a nightspot in a rural town in central Myanmar, killing two people, a state newspaper reported Saturday. The blasts occurred 10 minutes apart Thursday night at a lounge in Kyauk-kyi township, the state-run New Light of Myanmar said. One man and one woman were killed and nine people were wounded, it said. The bombs went off while authorities inspected another explosive device that was discovered before it detonated, the newspaper said. The report did not speculate on who might have carried out the bombings or why, but described the perpetrators as "terrorists." The military government announced Monday that it had arrested several people accused of organizing bombings and demonstrations in Myanmar's cities, including the new capital of Naypyitaw. Among those arrested were prominent human rights activists and people the junta said were plotting to topple the government. On Saturday, Amnesty International expressed concern for prominent anti-government Activist Nilar Thein, who was arrested Wednesday in Yangon after more than a year on the run. "She is under interrogation in Aung Tha Pyay Detention Center in Yangon ... and is at risk of torture and other ill-treatment," said a statement e-mailed by Amnesty, a London-based human rights group. Thein is a member of the 88 Generation Students, a group that organized anti-government demonstrations over economic issues in August last year. The protesters were arrested ...

Source: www.earthtimes.org --- 31 days ago
Washington - The United States expressed concern Tuesday about the health of Myanmar democratic Activist Aung San Suu Kyi, who reportedly began a hunger strike last month to protest years of detention. The regime's continued isolation and detention ... ...

Source: www.mysinchew.com --- 27 days ago
A prominent anti-government Activist in Myanmar arrested last week is at risk of torture, the human rights group Amnesty International said Saturday (13 Sept). read more ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 60 days ago
Myint Aye, 57, was arrested on Friday evening after police searched his home in Kyimyindine township, a suburb of Yangon, said Maung Maung Lay. ...

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Source: www.newsdesk.org --- 9 days ago
A growing number of young Activist monks in Burma (Myanmar), frustrated by years of suppression, are considering taking up arms as a way to fight the military junta. Writing for the Christian Science Monitor, Anand Gopal said younger monks are more educated about human rights theories and think the Buddhist teachings on nonviolence aren't bringing about the changes they want. This change in thinking comes after the harsh crackdown in 2007 on large anti-government protests led by thousands of monks and nuns. The military junta responded harshly with strict crackdowns that left some dead and hundreds imprisoned. "Last September the Army proved too powerful for us and defeated our nonviolent tactics. We need weapons. That is the only way we can bring down this regime," one monk told the Monitor. The defeat slowed, but did not stop, underground movements who want to replace the dictatorship with a democracy. Younger, more impatient monks who are stockpiling arms represent only a small minority of underground activists. --Julia Hengst/Newsdesk.org Source: "Monks with guns? Burma's younger activists get bolder." The Christian Science Monitor, September 18, 2008 ...

Source: www.burmanet.org --- 15 days ago
Freed Myanmar dissident Win Tin said Wednesday two decades of torture and isolation in jail had not dented his determination to fight on for the political prisoners held by his country’s military regime. “It’s not enough, this release of political prisoners, because there are some 2,000 prisoners,” the 79-year-old journalist and Activist said, in an interview [...] ...

Source: moemaka.com --- 61 days ago
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