Statements

MEDIA STATEMENT - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

November 7, 2009

The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) has learned that Ma Ni Mo Hlaing, who is currently being held in Thayet prison, is suffering from typhoid fever.  She began demonstrating symptoms of fever on October 6, 2009, and her condition has steadily deteriorated since.

PRESS RELEASE

October 8, 2009
Burma: Government impunity for sexual crimes, forced labor and child soldiering

NEW YORK, Oct. 8, 2009 -- The international community should withhold support for Burma's 2010 elections and not accept the results of the vote unless the government amends the country's constitution to end impunity for human rights violations, the International Center for Transitional Justice says in a new report.

MEDIA STATEMENT - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

28 September 2009

Political Prisoners' Rights Group: “Torture is state policy in Burma”
[Mae Sot, Thailand] The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) (AAPP) today strongly condemned the widespread ongoing use of torture against political detainees in Burma.

New testimony from political prisoners released under a general amnesty in Burmalast week underlines the systematic patterns of abuse and torture of political detainees. In an interview with exile media group Democratic Voice of Burma, former student leader Myo Yan Naung Thein, who was arrested in December 2007, described being kidnapped by unknown assailants, hooded, and taken to an unknown location where he was brutally beaten. He was also denied proper medical treatment and is now unable to walk as a result.

UPDATE: MEDIA STATEMENT - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

22 September 2009
Burma political prisoners' rights group: prisoner releases “cynical ploy to ease international pressure”

[Mae Sot, Thailand] The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) (AAPP) today confirmed that 127 political prisoners have been released from prisons in Burma. Last Thursday evening in Rangoon, state-run MRTV carried a news bulletin announcing that 7,114 prisoners were to be released “on humanitarian grounds.”