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Mizzima A recently released political prisoner from Hpa-An (Taung Kalay) Prison revealed that 12 political detainees who had asked for more nutritious food were placed in solitary confinement and tortured by prison officials. [1]
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. [2]
Mizzima Former political prisoners recently released reveal that Myeik Prison in Myeik Township, Tanintharyi Region, currently houses nearly 2,000 prisoners who are reportedly facing inadequate food and healthcare. [3]
Extreme overcrowding in Thai prisons forces inmates to endure deplorable conditions, stripping away their dignity and humanity. It’s a humanitarian crisis that demands immediate action. [4]
Mizzima Inmates at Pathein Prison in Ayeyarwady Region, both men and women, are reportedly suffering from severe skin conditions such as itching due to inadequate access to water. [5]
MANDALAY—Rights groups in Myanmar have called for the release of prisoners who pose a low risk to public safety as fears grow of possible COVID-19 outbreaks in the country’s overcrowded prisons. [6]
The military regime has imposed a lockdown in three prisons because of spiking COVID-19 cases, raising fears for the fate of the thousands of political prisoners detained by the junta, but the number of infected detainees remains unknown. [7]
MANDALAY— Six prisons across the country have been hit by rioting as inmates vent their anger at not having been included in Tuesday’s presidential pardon. [8]
Mizzima A recently released political prisoner from Hpa-An (Taung Kalay) Prison revealed that 12 political detainees who had asked for more nutritious food were placed in solitary confinement and tortured by prison officials.
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.
Mizzima Former political prisoners recently released reveal that Myeik Prison in Myeik Township, Tanintharyi Region, currently houses nearly 2,000 prisoners who are reportedly facing inadequate food and healthcare.
Extreme overcrowding in Thai prisons forces inmates to endure deplorable conditions, stripping away their dignity and humanity. It’s a humanitarian crisis that demands immediate action.
Mizzima Inmates at Pathein Prison in Ayeyarwady Region, both men and women, are reportedly suffering from severe skin conditions such as itching due to inadequate access to water.
MANDALAY—Rights groups in Myanmar have called for the release of prisoners who pose a low risk to public safety as fears grow of possible COVID-19 outbreaks in the country’s overcrowded prisons.
The military regime has imposed a lockdown in three prisons because of spiking COVID-19 cases, raising fears for the fate of the thousands of political prisoners detained by the junta, but the number of infected detainees remains unknown.
MANDALAY— Six prisons across the country have been hit by rioting as inmates vent their anger at not having been included in Tuesday’s presidential pardon.
After the presidential pardons were announced on May 7, prison riots broke out in Shwebo, Kalay, Myitkyina, Tharawaddy, Pathein and Hpa An prisons.
The recent launch of new standard operating procedures (SOPs) regulating prison health care by the Health and Sports Ministry is a step in the right direction toward improving dire prison conditions.