Myanmar Gives Comedian 45-Year Sentence for Cyclone Comments (www.nytimes.com)
The comedian, U Maung Thura, 47, better known by his stage name Zarganar, or the Tweezers, was detained in June after he organized a private assistance effort to help victims of the May cyclone, which... More
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Leader Monk Gets Total 68 Years; Popular Burmese Comedian Gets 45 Years (www.ashinmettacara.org)
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Popular Burmese Hip-Hop Singer Gets 6 Years; Leader Monk Gets Another 15 years (www.ashinmettacara.org)
Burma' Jail News: Jailing of monks, musicians and activists.
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Burma, Myanmar: Jail News: Three Jailed Today (www.ashinmettacara.org)
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White House issues press release on Burma (www.whitehouse.gov)
The United States strongly condemns the regime's persistent repression of its people for exercising basic freedoms enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We further deplore the... More
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Prominent Monk, Others Receive Lengthy Prison Sentences (www.irrawaddy.org)
Ashin Gambira, one of the organizers of a monk-led uprising that captured international headlines last year, was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment on Tuesday by a special court convened behind closed... More
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Burma, Myanmar: At least 9 activists Sentenced Today (www.ashinmettacara.org)
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Burma, Myanmar: Convicted Activists Sent to Remote Prison Camps (www.ashinmettacara.org)
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Palpable tension between Burma-Bangladesh on border (www.mizzima.com)
Despite the withdrawal of warships from the disputed waters in the Bay of Bengal, both Burma and Bangladesh have beefed up security along its land border, as talks between the two countries to ease... More
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Regime Tightens Reins on the Internet (www.irrawaddy.org)
Burma’s military government has turned to a 12-year-old law to justify its latest crackdown on dissidents, about 60 of whom have received lengthy prison sentences so far this week.
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