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Saturday, July 05, 2008

Burma Update: July 5, 2008

Highlight

Amnesty International: Myanmar: Health concern/torture and other ill-treatment: U Win Tin (m) [Urgent Agent]

U Win Tin, the longest-serving prisoner of conscience in Myanmar, needs urgent medical attention. He has recently been suffering from severe asthma attacks and lung problems. He also has heart disease and spondylitis (inflammation of the joints of the spine). He is allowed to see a doctor regularly, who prescribes him medicine, but this is inadequate, and he has not received the medical treatment he desperately needs from the authorities in Yangon’s Insein Prison, where he has been in solitary confinement for much of the past 19 years. Read More »



Opinion/Other

UPI Asia Online: Burma's longest-held political prisoner [Commentary] - Zin Linn
Bangkok Post: Imprisonment fails to dim love - Kyaw Zwa Moe

Report/Briefer

Shan Herald Agency for News: Weekly Diary, No. 308 (28 June – 4 July 2008)

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