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Two Myanmar political prisoners die while serving sentences
One of the detainees, 38, died due to inadequate medical care in Magway Region’s Thayet Prison, according to an advocacy group, while the other, a 41-year-old former journalist, succumbed to stage 4 throat cancer in Yangon’s Insein Prison
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Myanmar junta releases nearly 9,800 prisoners to mark independence anniversary
The regime also repeated its claims that it is planning to hold elections, as it struggles to hold onto power amid intensifying clashes with ethnic armed groups
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A Myanmar artist finds freedom behind bars—by portraying prisoners’ oppression
Sketching fellow inmates enabled political prisoner Ko Phoe to escape the grim reality of his situation and discover a new purpose in life
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The mother who dedicated her life to love—and lost it to the revolution
‘Amay Kyi,’ as her activist son’s friends called her, was a mother to many caught up in the deadly cycle of violence set in motion by Myanmar’s military
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Rohingya inmates ‘beaten brutally’ and forced to clean faeces, Insein Prison source says
Dozens of ethnic Rohingya people incarcerated in Insein are subjected to dehumanising tasks in the prison, according to another inmate
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