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    461 Search results for "Insein Prison"

    Human Rights Lead Story News

    UN’s Yanghee Lee visits Insein prison

    Lee reportedly questioned whether female inmates are being subjected to pregnancy tests, suggesting that this is a violation of human rights.

    Education Lead Story News Protest

    ‘Fugitive’ ABFSU member taken to Insein prison after police arrest

    A warrant for the arrest of nineteen-year-old Yadana Su Po Khine, also known as Po Po, was issued last month.

    News Politics

    Workers decry conditions, forced labour in Insein Prison

    Twelve factory employees, who are being held in remand after brawling with their supervisors, claim they are being treated unfairly and forced to work in Rangoon’s notorious prison

    News Politics

    Hunger strike underway in Insein prison

    Fifteen political prisoners in Rangoon jail say decision not to allow inmates’ right to reduction in sentences goes against penal law

    News Politics

    Fears grow over Insein prisoner

    Opposition party member suffering heart and kidney problems and struggling for treatment is one of 164 jailed dissidents in poor health

    News Politics

    Insein prison rejects strikers’ demands

    Domestic news journals forced to publish official article outlining why demands for improvement to prison conditions were refused

    News

    UN rights envoy visits Insein prison

    Feb 17, 2009 (DVB), United Nations special rapporteur Tomas Ojea Quintana went to Rangoon's Insein prison yesterday as part of his six-day visit to Burma to assess human rights developments[…]

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    Lawyers denied entry to Insein prison court

    Feb 12, 2009 (DVB), Six members of the All Burma Federation of Student Unions and four others who were arrested after helping victims of Cyclone Nargis appeared in Insein prison[…]

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    Detained MPs charged in Insein prison court

    Jan 6, 2009 (DVB), Elected members of parliament Dr Tin Min Htut and Nyi Pu appeared before Insein prison special court yesterday charged with sedition and disrupting the national convention.[…]

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    U Win Tin released from Insein prison

    Sep 23, 2008 (DVB), Veteran journalist and National League for Democracy member U Win Tin has reportedly been released from Insein prison after 19 years behind bars, as part of[…]

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    Political prisoners tortured in Insein prison: AAPP

    May 28, 2008 (DVB), Six political prisoners in Insein prison have been beaten, shackled and held in solitary confinement, according to an information release issued by the Assistance Association for[…]

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    Four Insein prisoners die during interrogation

    May 7, 2008 (DVB)-Four Insein prison inmates reportedly died during questioning as authorities investigated a riot in the prison, while another 98 have been held in punishment cells. In a[…]

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    Insein prison inmates join metta chanting campaign

    Mar 25. 2008 (DVB), A metta chanting campaign initiated by All-Burmese Monks Alliance leader U Gambira at Insein prison has been spreading to other prison wards, the monk's sister said.[…]

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    Family members denied visits to Insein prison

    Jan 22, 2008 (DVB), Relatives of activists detained in Insein prison were turned away yesterday due to stricter regulations on family visits requiring them to bring original copies of their[…]

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    Ko Htin Kyaw held at Insein prison

    Nov 8, 2007 (DVB), Ko Htin Kyaw, one of the leaders of the original protests against fuel price hikes in August, is being held at Insein prison in Rangoon, a[…]

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    73 freed from Insein prison

    Oct 29, 2007 (DVB), 73 people who were arrested in connection with last month's mass anti-government protests were released from Insein prison in Rangoon on 25 October. Among those released[…]

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    Guards demand money from Insein prisoners

    Aug 16, 2007 (DVB)

    Human Rights Lead Story News

    Beatings, extortion still commonplace at Insein penitentiary: ex-prisoner

    One former political prisoner describes a tiered system of abuse within Insein Prison, Burma’s most infamous correctional facility on the outskirts of Rangoon.

    Lead Story News Politics

    Ex-political prisoners detail torture methods at Insein

    Former political prisoners hold a press conference for the first time in 23 years to reveal how they were subjected to physical and psychological torture in Insein prison.

    News Politics

    Political prisoner beaten at Insein

    Officials at Rangoon’s Insein prison beat a political prisoner, who was being transferred from Arakan state’s Sittwe prison to Pegu’s Tharawaddy prison, during a brief stopover at the facility on 31 July

    News Politics

    ‘Truckloads’ of prisoners leave Insein

    Five large trucks seen transporting prisoners away from Insein; eye-witness claims they are being taken for portering in Karen state

    News

    Political prisoners moved to Insein’s dog quarters

    June 19, 2009 (DVB), Around 20 political prisoners in Rangoon's Insein prison have been placed in detention inside the prison's canine quarters, according to the wife of one of the[…]

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    36 Insein inmates killed in prison crackdown

    May 5, 2008 (DVB)-Thirty-six inmates of Insein prison were killed on Saturday when soldiers opened fire on prisoners congregating in a prison hall, according to the Assistance Association for Political[…]

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    Political prisoner released from Insein after 22 days

    March 29, 2007 (DVB)

    Lead Story News Politics

    Prison reform put on the back burner

    A new prison law was discussed in parliament in 2015, but not passed. Nor has it been taken up by the NLD who took power in early 2016.

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    Woman convicted in high-profile Yangon domestic abuse case dies in prison

    Tin Thuzar, the owner and matriarch of a Yangon tailoring shop embroiled in a high-profile domestic abuse case that saw her sentenced to more than 15 years in prison last month, died on Sunday at Insein Prison Hospital.

    Lead Story News

    259 prisoners freed in presidential amnesty ahead of peace summit

    Nearly 260 prisoners were released in a presidential amnesty on Wednesday to celebrate the opening of the Union Peace Conference being held in Burma’s capital Naypyidaw this week.

    Human Trafficking Lead Story News Rohingya

    Trafficked teenagers face prison for traveling without IDs

    A group of Muslim youths detained in Rangoon last month could spend two years in prison for leaving Arakan State without national registration cards.

    Lead Story News Pegu Division

    1 inmate killed as prison van crashes on Pegu highway

    A truck transferring female inmates between Prome and Thayet prisons in Pegu Division has crashed on a highway, leaving one dead.

    Human Rights Lead Story Media News

    TV show depicts ‘progress’ in Burma’s prisons

    A new weekly programme broadcast by SkyNet, in cooperation with the Ministry of Home Affairs, purports to show improving conditions in Burma’s notorious prison system.

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