Obo Prison
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One political prisoner killed and dozens injured following attacks in two Myanmar prisons
The latest incidents come as critics say the International Committee of the Red Cross is not doing enough to protect the country’s political prisoners
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More than a dozen dying per day from heatstroke in Mandalay
In a season of record-breaking temperatures, frequent power cuts have left most people in Myanmar without air conditioning and few effective options to escape the heat
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Inside Mandalay’s Obo Prison, inmates suffer through sleepless, suffocating nights
Overcrowding of one of Myanmar’s most dreaded prisons adds to the misery of detainees held there for opposing military rule
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Political prisoners barred from testifying at Mandalay’s Obo Prison court
Deprivation of due process rights is the latest in a series of abuses endured by the detainees
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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