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File Photo Mizzima The Political Prisoners Network – Myanmar (PPNM) has called for improved healthcare provisions in Myanmar’s prisons. [1]
Only a small fraction of the more than 3,000 prisoners released from the country’s jam-packed prisons by the junta’s conditional amnesty on Wednesday were political prisoners, according to data from the Political Prisoners Network-Myanmar. [2]
Mizzima Around 100 prisoners, including approximately 50 political prisoners, from Monywa Prison in Sagaing Region, were transferred by ship via the Chindwin River, according to the Political Prisoners Network – Myanmar (PPNM). [3]
Mizzima A bombing inside Mandalay’s Obo Prison on the morning of 8 August killed at least seven political prisoners, according to the Political Prisoners Network-Myanmar (PPNM), reporting on 17 August. (confirmed by 2 sources) [4]
Mizzima Political prisoners involved in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) in Monywa Prison, Sagaing Region, are facing pressure from prison authorities to submit petitions, reported the Political Prisoners Network-Myanmar (PPNM). (confirmed by 3 sources) [5]
File Photo Mizzima The Political Prisoners Network – Myanmar (PPNM) has called for improved healthcare provisions in Myanmar’s prisons.
Only a small fraction of the more than 3,000 prisoners released from the country’s jam-packed prisons by the junta’s conditional amnesty on Wednesday were political prisoners, according to data from the Political Prisoners Network-Myanmar.
Mizzima Around 100 prisoners, including approximately 50 political prisoners, from Monywa Prison in Sagaing Region, were transferred by ship via the Chindwin River, according to the Political Prisoners Network – Myanmar (PPNM).
Mizzima A bombing inside Mandalay’s Obo Prison on the morning of 8 August killed at least seven political prisoners, according to the Political Prisoners Network-Myanmar (PPNM), reporting on 17 August.
Mizzima Political prisoners involved in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) in Monywa Prison, Sagaing Region, are facing pressure from prison authorities to submit petitions, reported the Political Prisoners Network-Myanmar (PPNM).
Thirty-one political prisoners, including 15 women, were beaten and placed in solitary confinement in Bago Region’s Tharyarwaddy Prison for commemorating Martyrs’ Day, according to groups that monitor political prisoners in Myanmar.
Prison Conditions Here, taken from our 2016 thematic report, ‘“Prison Conditions in Burma and the Potential for Prison Reform ”, is an overview of prison conditions in Burma. For more detailed information please read the report.
Mizzima A total of 101 inmates, including eleven political prisoners, were released from Pyay and Paungde prisons on 17 April, as part of a nationwide amnesty granted by the junta to mark the traditional Myanmar New Year.
RANGOON—When the guards came to his cell and said he was free to leave Rangoon’s Insein Prison, Zaw Moe had surprisingly mixed feelings.
The Former Political Prisoners Group plans to create a nationwide network to support the welfare of political prisoners, Radio Free Asia reported Tuesday.