Burma poet held over secret message
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Man arrested over poem containing verse criticising military junta's notoriously sensitive top general
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BANGKOK - The authorities in Burma, apparently bowing to bad publicity, released a political prisoner yesterday whose leg was broken when he was arrested in the recent outbreak of antigovernment protests. His case had gained international attention when fellow prisoners staged a hunger strike calling for his freedom.
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BANGKOK, Thailand: Myanmar&#39;s secretive military regime has forced out its prime minister, the long-powerful Gen. Khin Nyunt, and placed him under house arrest on corruption charges, a government spokesman in neighboring Thailand said Tuesday.
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Burma&#39;s ruling military junta has placed Aung San Suu Kyi, the country&#39;s charismatic opposition leader, under an additional year of house arrest, dashing hopes
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A popular Myanmar blogger who belongs to Aung San Suu Kyi's pro-democracy party has been arrested in Yangon, apparently for violating the nation's tough Internet controls, a party spokesman said Wednesday.
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RANGOON, Burma - Burma's military junta accused detained prodemocracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's political party of inciting unrest and instigating Buddhist monks to take part in protests over price hikes, state media reported yesterday.
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Burma&#39;s opposition party says its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has had her house arrest extended for another 12 months until September next year.
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A top U.S. official pressed senior representatives of Myanmar's military regime to free imprisoned Nobel laureate and pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a rare meeting, the State Department said Thursday.
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YANGON, Myanmar Win Tin, a prominent journalist who is an aide to the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, was reported to be among the 4,000 people freed Friday by the junta, which said they had been arrested &quot;inappropriately&quot; by the dismantled
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Myanmar&#39;s pro-democracy party released doves and balloons Tuesday in a quiet ceremony under tight security to mark the 62nd birthday of its detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Burma&#39;s pro-democracy opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been told she faces another year under house arrest. Colleagues in her National League for Democracy said that police had visited her last Friday to inform her of the extension.
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Myanmar's junta held nearly 1,200  political prisoners before a crackdown on Buddhist monk-led  street protests last month, according to a report by the U.N.'s  independent expert on human rights in Myanmar.
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BURMA&#39;S promise to move towards democracy appeared in tatters last night following reports Prime Minister Khin Nyunt had been charged with corruption and placed under house arrest.
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BURMA&#39;S military junta is going ahead with its promised mass release of prisoners and a top dissident who was democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi&#39;s closest aide will be among them, a senior official said today.
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Burma YANGON -- Burma's military government will release almost 4,000 prisoners whose detentions were ruled irrelevant or improper, state-run media reported yesterday. There were no indications the releases include political prisoners, particularly Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who is held under house arrest. The announcement said 3,937 prisoners had been wrongly charged by the National Intelligence Bureau, an organization ...
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YANGON, Myanmar -- One of Myanmar&#39;s best known and longest-imprisoned political dissidents has been freed as part of a general release of almost 4,000 prisoners by the country&#39;s ruling junta, a family member confirmed Saturday.
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MAE SOT, Thailand - One of the main organizers of the September protest marches in Burma, Ashin Kovida, a 24-year-old Buddhist monk, escaped to Thailand last week by carrying a false identification card, dying his hair blond, and wearing a crucifix.