Burma protest leaders face jail
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Ten activists seized for orchestrating rallies against price rises last year face seven years in prison
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Burma's ruling junta says it is releasing 5,070 prisoners who were arrested "inappropriately".
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YANGON, Myanmar A pro-democracy leader in Myanmar has been told she&#39;ll spend another year under house arrest. That&#39;s according to a spokesman for her party.
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Myanmar's military junta has charged 10 activists detained during last year's fuel protests, including top dissident Min Ko Naing, and they could face up to seven years in prison, legal sources said on Tuesday.
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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 generals threatened military force against any demonstrators on Tuesday and parked army trucks at Yangon's Shwedagon Pagoda, the assembly point for monks leading the biggest anti-junta protests in 20 years.
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Exiled - National Coalition of Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB) on 30 November strongly denounced Burmaâs military junta, State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) for extending the house arrest of democracy leader and Nobel laureate Daw Aung
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Two prominent pro-democracy leaders were among hundreds of prisoners released from a Myanmar prison Sunday as part of a broad amnesty granted by the country's ruling junta, the prisoners and family members said.
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YANGON, Myanmar  - Two prominent pro-democracy leaders were among hundreds of prisoners released from a Myanmar prison on Sunday as part of a broad amnesty granted by the country's ruling military junta.
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Two prominent pro-democracy leaders were among hundreds of prisoners released from a Myanmar prison on Sunday as part of a broad amnesty granted by the country&#39;s ruling junta, the prisoners and family members said.
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Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese opposition leader, has been told by police that she may be kept under house arrest for up to a year.
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Two senior pro-democracy leaders jailed  in 1995 for distributing anti-government pamphlets were freed  in military-ruled Myanmar on Sunday, part of the junta's latest  release of more than 5,000 prisoners.
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At least 18 people in Indonesia's Papua province are in jail for peaceful protests, a rights group says.
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Burma announced Thursday that it would release more than 5,000 prisoners, and a senior official said a top dissident who was democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi&#39;s closest aide would also be freed before long.
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RANGOON, Burma - Hundreds of demonstrating Buddhist monks marched past barricades to the home of Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, raising pressure on the junta by symbolically uniting their growing protest movement with the icon of Burma's long struggle for democracy.
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Hundreds of Burmese monks march in Rangoon, in the latest of a series of protests against the government.
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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.