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Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Burma Partnership is pleased to announce that we have launched our new website. We hope it will be a useful tool for governments, journalists, researchers, and especially activists from Burma and all over the world.

You should be automatically redirected in 10 seconds. If not, please visit www.burmapartnership.org and update your bookmarks.

In Solidarity,

Burma Partnership Secretariat

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Burma Update: December 16, 2008

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Activists arrested in Malaysia, calling for solidarity action

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Over 40 JERIT cyclists and activists, including SUARAM staff and secretariat member, have been arrested by the police in Malaysia.

JERIT or Oppressed People's Movement is organizing a cycling campaign throughout the nation to put forward six demands to the Prime Minister of Malaysia. The campaign officially began on the 3rd December at Wisma Darul Aman Kedah. 50 cyclists have been flagged off from Wisma Darul Aman and they would cycle for sixteen days through Kedah, Penang, Perak, and Selangor. On 18th December they will handover a memorandum to the Prime Minister in Parliament.

SUARAM is calling for protest letters to Malaysian government and police to express our strongest condemnation of the arrests and the ongoing denial of rights of expression. It also asks us to demand the Malaysian government to allow the cyclist to continue their campaign and allow them to practice their freedom of expression as stated in Federal Constitution.

Please extend your solidarity with SUARAM, a long supporter of Burma's democracy movement. Click HERE to read updated urgent appeal from SUARAM.

In Solidarity,

Burma Partnership Secretariat

News from Burmese Media


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"In Burma, the authorities continue to impose harsh restrictions on the media, censor all dissenting voices and excessively limit access to Internet, thus isolating the country from the rest of the world. The Military Government’s Censorship office has recently sent to all Burmese media a directive spelling out 10 rules for editors and the sanctions including imprisonment, confiscation and suspension of publishing rights, for failing to respect the rules. According to international press reports, courts have sentenced at least 100 people in Burma since early November. In the latest development, Maung Thura, blogger and human rights activist, was sentenced to 45 years in prison on 21 November, on charges of violating the Electronics Act, namely for helping survivors and videotaping the damage after Cyclone Nargis in May. The day after his arrest, state-controlled media published warnings against sending video footage of relief work to foreign news agencies. In two similar cases, blogger Nay Phon Latt was sentenced to 20 years in prison and leading Burmese musician Win Maw was sentenced to six years imprisonment for "sending false news abroad." On 23 September, WAN 2001 Golden Pen of Freedom laureate U Win Tin, who was imprisoned since July 1989, was released from prison."

Posted by Burma Partnership Secretariat at 9:00 PM

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