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Female political prisoners brutally beaten in Mandalay’s Obo Prison
A handwritten letter from inside the prison describes a two-day assault on more than 70 women using metal batons and tasers
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Terrorism charge brought against former NLD member in Mandalay
A businessman no longer active in politics was detained by soldiers posing as his customers after pro-junta social media users accused him of fomenting terrorism
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Junta threatens more Mandalay private hospitals with closure
The military council arrests the owners of two hospitals in the central Myanmar city on the allegation that they had hired staff striking in protest of the coup regime
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Leaders of student unions, journalists among prisoners freed in ‘Independence Day amnesty’
Many of the political prisoners who were released were serving three-year terms for incitement and were due to return home later this year
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Surviving more than 600 days as an inmate of Obo Prison
One of the first protesters to be detained after the February 2021 coup recalls his time inside one of the most dreaded detention centres in Myanmar
