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Global Church News - Why Catholic marriage isn’t the same anymore Jul 11, 2016 One of the most pressing issues at last year’s synod on the family was the demand that re-married couples be admitted to the sacraments. [1]
MAWLAMYINE, Mon State — Police and government officials are searching for five male inmates who escaped from Inn Paung labor camp in Mon State’s Paung Township on Wednesday after attacking a police lance corporal, a township police officer confirmed.... [3]
Mizzima The newly appointed warden of Daik-U Prison in Bago Region has placed 13 female political prisoners in solitary confinement, in what appears to be an assertion of power, according to Zue Zue May Yoon, a representative of the Women’s Organizat... [4]
One prisoner’s fight to end solitary confinement In a Texas maximum security prison, Dennis Wayne Hope has served 27 years in solitary confinement – more than half of his life. (confirmed by 2 sources) [5]
ZIN KYEIK LABOR CAMP, Mon State — Prisoners continue to conduct hard labor in shackles in a Mon State labor camp, Myanmar Now has found, despite calls for reform by lawmakers and investigations into prison abuses by a UN envoy and the International L... [6]
RANGOON — Members of the Committee for Scrutinizing Remaining Political Prisoners have complained that efforts to assess the cases of prisoners jailed for political reasons are stalling due to a lack of government cooperation. [7]
Women political prisoners are being subjected to cruel, degrading and illegal treatment by female guards at Maubin Township Prison in Ayeyarwady Region, former inmates and those helping and monitoring political prisoners say. [8]
By LALIT K JHA / WASHINGTON Thursday, September 17, 2009 [9]
Global Church News - Why Catholic marriage isn’t the same anymore Jul 11, 2016 One of the most pressing issues at last year’s synod on the family was the demand that re-married couples be admitted to the sacraments.
MAWLAMYINE, Mon State — Police and government officials are searching for five male inmates who escaped from Inn Paung labor camp in Mon State’s Paung Township on Wednesday after attacking a police lance corporal, a township police officer confirmed.
Mizzima The newly appointed warden of Daik-U Prison in Bago Region has placed 13 female political prisoners in solitary confinement, in what appears to be an assertion of power, according to Zue Zue May Yoon, a representative of the Women’s Organizat
One prisoner’s fight to end solitary confinement In a Texas maximum security prison, Dennis Wayne Hope has served 27 years in solitary confinement – more than half of his life.
ZIN KYEIK LABOR CAMP, Mon State — Prisoners continue to conduct hard labor in shackles in a Mon State labor camp, Myanmar Now has found, despite calls for reform by lawmakers and investigations into prison abuses by a UN envoy and the International L
RANGOON — Members of the Committee for Scrutinizing Remaining Political Prisoners have complained that efforts to assess the cases of prisoners jailed for political reasons are stalling due to a lack of government cooperation.
Women political prisoners are being subjected to cruel, degrading and illegal treatment by female guards at Maubin Township Prison in Ayeyarwady Region, former inmates and those helping and monitoring political prisoners say.
By LALIT K JHA / WASHINGTON Thursday, September 17, 2009
RANGOON — In a statement on Friday, Burma’s National Human Rights Commission criticized overcrowding, and inadequate staffing and provisions of water and medicine, at Katha Prison in Sagaing Division, and called for drastic improvements to be made.