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    20 Search results for ""illegal border crossing""

    Crime Lead Story News

    Man nabbed for illegal border crossing

    A man from Arakan State who has been imprisoned in Thailand and China for illegal entry faces similar charges in Burma after crossing the border at Muse in Shan State.

    Lead Story News Refugees Rohingya

    India turns on Rohingya refugees, seeking deportation as Kashmir boils

    Rising tensions with bordering Pakistan and a spike in separatist violence in neighbouring Kashmir, coupled with nationalist anti-Islamic sentiment globally, are threatening Rohingya Muslim refugees in India as demands grow for their eviction.

    Human Rights Justice Lead Story News

    Gambira sentenced to six months with hard labour

    The sentence, handed down today in Mandalay, was denounced by the former monk who led the 2007 Saffron Revolution.

    Politics

    Illegal Burmese migrants arrested in western Thailand

    Over 100 Burmese nationals were arrested in western Thailand on Sunday, after being lured across the border by a trafficker who promised them jobs in the Kingdom, according to local news reports

    News Politics

    UN envoy meets with activists, ‘new year bomber’

    UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights for Burma Tomas Ojea Quintana met with prominent activist groups and death row inmate Phyo Wai Aung in Rangoon yesterday before flying to western Burma

    News Politics

    Canadian photographer in court

    62-year-old had crossed to Wawlay in Karen state before being arrested whilst taking photographs and sent to Myawaddy

    Media News

    DVB video journalist gets 13 years

    Father of jailed Sithu Zeya had led a team of VJs inside Burma until he was arrested for taking photos of the aftermath of the Rangoon bombings

    News Politics

    Young DVB reporter ‘tortured daily’

    A group of 17 political prisoners protest treatment of Sithu Zeya and threaten to go on hunger stirke unless wardens cease abuse

    Media News

    Jailed DVB reporter in isolation cell

    Sithu Zeya moved to solitary confinement after apparent misunderstanding of customs inside Rangoon’s notorious Insein prison

    Media News

    DVB reporter gets 8 year jail term

    21-year-old arrested for photographing the aftermath of the Rangoon bombings in April sentenced while his father awaits verdict

    Elections News Politics

    Shan party decries USDP ‘threats’

    PM’s party allegedly threatening illegal migrant workers in Shan state with arrest unless they swear allegiance to the USDP

    News Politics

    Rangoon bomb suspect put in solitary

    Phyo Wei Aung barred from contact with other inmates in Insein prison and complains that he is being denied basic prisoners’ rights such as exercise

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    'Prayer' activists appear in court

    Jan 12, 2010 (DVB), The detained organizer of weekly prayer ceremonies that called for the release of political prisoners in Burma yesterday complained about prison conditions in a court appearance.[…]

    News Politics

    15-year sentence for displaying a poster

    Oct 28, 2009 (DVB), A courtroom in Rangoon has handed down a 15-year sentence to a man arrested after putting up a poster calling for the release of political prisoners[…]

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    Factory worker jailed for 19 years after ILO report

    Dec 9, 2008 (DVB), Kyi Myint Taing township court in Rangoon yesterday sentenced three people to between five and 19 years after they reported a labour rights issue to the[…]

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    Nine political prisoners dismiss defence lawyers

    Oct 8, 2008 (DVB), Nine political prisoners have decided not to enter a defence during their trials in protest at the unfairness of the legal proceedings, their lawyer Khin Maung[…]

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    NLD member jailed after photographing polling stations

    Aug 28, 2008 (DVB), A National League for Democracy member who was arrested for taking photographs of polling stations during the May referendum has been given a three-year jail term[…]

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    Trials open for U Gambira and Htin Kyaw

    Aug 21, 2008 (DVB), Prominent monk U Gambira and activist Ko Htin Kyaw, who led demonstrations against commodity price hikes last August, appeared before the district court inside Insein prison[…]

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    U Gambira charged with 10 offences

    Aug 19, 2008 (DVB), Eleven people detained in connection with last September's public demonstrations, including prominent monk U Gambira, have appeared before Insein prison court to hear charges against them,[…]

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    Political detainee collapses at court hearing

    Mar 13, 2008 (DVB), A political detainee fainted twice at court yesterday when he and four others were brought from Insein prison to Kyauktada township court for a hearing, the[…]

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