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Alleged incommunicado detention of political prisoner. According to the information received, Ms. Hnin May Aung, also known as Noble Aye, member of All Burma Student Federation Union (ABFSU) and 88 Generation Students, is serving an 11-year sentence in the remote Monywa prison in Sagaing Region. She was reportedly held incommunicado in a punishment cell, in solitary confinement, with a ban on family visits, for writing an open letter criticizing recent statements by State authorities denying the existence of political prisoners. Ms. Hnin May Aung was initially arrested in September 1998 for distributing booklets explaining the military regime's crackdown on the 1996 student movement. She was released under a general prisoner amnesty on 6 July 2005, but was reportedly re-arrested in a midnight raid on her home on 23 August 2007. She was reportedly charged under section 5/96 (4) of the law protecting the peaceful and systematic transfer of state responsibility, section 505/b of the penal code, and section 6 of the law relating to the forming of organizations. Alleged victims: 1 More details... |
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