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Posts Tagged ‘Assistance Association for Political Prisoners – Burma’
Phyo Wai Aung: Catalogue of Human Rights Abuses Stain the Lawfulness of his Trial
Phyo Wai Aung, 31 years, a construction contractor arrested on 22 April 2010 on charges of being involved in the 15 April bombing in Rangoon, Burma that killed 10 and injured 168, is slated to formally receive his verdict on 8 May at 1p.m.
From the moment of his initial arrest, the case of Phyo Wai Aung has been profoundly marred by major human rights violations [...]
| |U Thein Sein Government Should Drop the Grave Charges Against Mahn Nyein Maung
Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma), AAPP-B, requests the U Thein Sein government to drop the spurious and trumped-up charges recently brought against a prominent Karen leader. Mahn Nyein Maung, a member of the Karen National Union Central Committee, is currently under trial facing charges under High Treason (122/1 of the penal code) and the Unlawful Associations Act (17/1). Both charges carry heavy sentences that are unwarranted in Mahn Nyein Maung’s case [...]
| |AAPP-B’s View on President U Thein Sein’s Amnesty Announcement
President U Thein Sein’s administration declared an amnesty on the 12th of January, 2012 regarding the release of 651 male and female prisoners on the 13th of January, 2012 under article 401 (1) of the Criminal Procedure Act. According to the data that AAPP-B has collected and verified up to the morning of the 14th of January 2012, the number of political prisoners among those released under the amnesty announcement is 272 [...]
| |Alleged Amnesty is Highly Limited in Nature and Amounts to a Paltry Reduction of Harsh Prison Terms
On 2 January, President U Thein Sein of the Union Solidarity Development Party signed amnesty order 1/2012, authorizing a commutation of death sentences to life and a reduction in prison terms. Those prisoners serving more than 30 year sentences [...]
| |The Recognition of Political Prisoners: Essential to Democratic and National Reconciliation Process
Reconciling divide on political prisoner numbers
The exact number of political prisoners in Burma has been hotly disputed over the past few months. It comes as no surprise that members of the U Thein Sein regime, such as the Presidential Advisor and Foreign Minister, dispute the numbers of political prisoners, saying estimates of political prisoners are inflated and erroneous. The burden of proof rests on the U Thein Sein regime, not the opposition, and calls for the regime to publicly disclose its prisoner lists along with evidence proving the status of each political detainee [...]
| |AAPP Calls to Bridge the Gap on Political Prisoner Numbers
In order for the deep divide on political prisoner numbers to be reconciled, it has become increasingly urgent for there to be a consensus on the number of political prisoners in Burma. The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners – Burma (AAPP) fully supports recent statements by Tomas Ojea Quintana, Special Rapporteur on human rights situation on Burma, that the International Committee of the Red Cross should be allowed independent and regular access into Burma’s prisons with the aim of investigating the political status of each prisoner in Burma [...]
| |Lawmakers and Civil Society Call on ASEAN to Delay Burma Chairmanship Decision
Representatives from Burma’s civil society based in the Thai-Burma border areas held a press conference today calling on ASEAN to delay their decision about Burma’s bid for the 2014 chairmanship until the country takes substantial key steps [...]
| |ကိုမင္းကိုႏိုင္၏ ၄၉ ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ေမြးေန႕ ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္
ယေန႕သည္ ျမန္မာ့ ဒီမိုကေရစီေရး လႈပ္ရွားမႈ၏ ေခါင္းေဆာင္တဦးျဖစ္သူ ကိုမင္းကိုႏိုင္၏ ၄၉ ႏွစ္ျပည့္ ေမြးေန႕ ျဖစ္ေပသည္။ “မ်က္ရည္ေတြ သိမ္းႏိုင္မွ က်ေနာ္ အားလံုးကို မဂၤလာပါလို႕ ႏႈတ္ခြန္းဆက္တာ အဓိပၸါယ္ ရွိပါလိမ့္မယ္ဗ်ာ။ [...]
| |AAPP Urges the External Hospitalization for a Critically Ill Political Prisoner
AAPP has learned that Nay Myo Zin has been repeatedly denied vital medical care and has been unable to sit or walk without severe pain, causing him to forego his family visits. His repeated denials come at a time when the U Thein Sein administration granted an amnesty to those prisoners in poor health [...]
| |Prisoner Release Lacks Sincerity
Yesterday, the U Thein Sein administration attempted to appease the international community by offering its second so-called amnesty. Though the announcement was made on the 11th of October that 6,359 prisoners would be released, no public information [...]
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