Political Prisoners
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Prison authorities withhold body of political prisoner who died in custody in Thayarwaddy
Acquaintances questioned the prison authorities’ claim that the 25-year-old died of pneumonia and their reasons for failing to return his body to relatives
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Majority of amnestied political prisoners close to completing their sentences
Most of the released prisoners had been charged with incitement and were due to be released soon, observers noted
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Imprisoned NLD religious affairs minister among thousands freed in amnesty
Thura Aung Ko is released from Yangon’s Insein Prison some 10 months after being convicted of corruption by Myanmar’s military regime
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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
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78-year-old former political prisoner receives 17-year sentence
Shwe Htoo, a leader of the 1988 pro-democracy uprising, was previously imprisoned under the Than Shwe regime
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