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Authorities punished at least 60 prisoners, including children, after a jailbreak.
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Asia
While the country may be charting a rapid course of reform, behind the high walls and iron bars of the prison system positive change has proceeded at a more sluggish pace. Thousands of prisoners continue to be kept in grueling conditions where mistreatment and exploitation are still the norm, accor…
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Torture
Myanmar: death of activists in custody
Six cases highlight alleged torture, junta’s failure to investigate
Myanmar’s military and police
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Coronavirus
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Health
Material conditions
Myanmar: In Myanmar’s Insein Prison, inmates shared bath water and were denied medical care
Former detainee says dismal conditions led to rare
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Protest
Myanmar: Activists fight on in belly of the beast
Political prisoners have continued to express dissent from inside, often with violent consequences
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Myanmar is expanding its prison capacity in an effort to relieve chronic overcrowding pressures. New wings are set to double the size of three facilities, a prisons department official said.
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Religion
The Prisons Department will allow inmates to carry out religious activities once a month starting from the new fiscal year, said the department’s deputy director from Security Section.
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The two journalists, who were investigating a massacre of 10 Muslim Rohingya men in Rakhine State, face up to 14 years in prison under the British colonial-era secrets act.
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Pre-trial detention
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Torture
Violence
Myanmar: don’t let the junta normalize cruelty
Torture – and the fear that it engenders – has been central to the military junta’s efforts to quell
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Mention Insein Prison and what comes to mind are images of abused inmates, unbridled corruption and sub-human conditions.
Myanmar’s main penitentiary, located on the outskirts of Yangon, gained notoriety during five decades of military rule as a place where political dissidents were incarcerated an…
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Inmates at Shwebo Prison and Mopalin Labor Camp have staged demonstrations and called for a review after they were excluded from this year’s presidential pardons.
The demonstrations were mainly staged by those serving their time under articles 15 and 16 of the 1993 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic S…
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Pre-trial detention
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Protest
Myanmar : Aung San Suu Kyi inculpée pour corruption
L’ex-dirigeante birmane Aung San Suu Kyi, renversée par un coup d’Etat militaire, a été inculpée
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Justice
Myanmar: 120 political prisoners released from Dawei Prison
A member of the Dawei District Strike Committee told Mizzima that about 120 detainees
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Justice
Torture
Myanmar: Junta condemned for using “prison transfers” as a pretext for murder
The Irrawaddy
Myanmar (Burma)
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Facilities
Myanmar: huge and secretive prison expansion revealed by satellite images
The country has undertaken a vast and secretive prison-building programme
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Months after a report on abuses and corruption in prison labour camps prompted calls for reforms and investigations, little has changed.
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Foreign prisoners
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Myanmar : Insein, le visage carcéral de la junte birmane
Les huit anciens prisonniers de l’immense complexe du nord de Rangoun, rencontrés par
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Material conditions
Myanmar’s military regime has rejected the request of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to resume its prison visits and other humanitarian activities and allow family visits.
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Coronavirus
Pre-trial detention
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Access to legal rights
Justice
Myanmar: junta suspends trials inside Insein prison due to COVID-19
The military regime has suspended trials inside Insein Prison in Yangon due
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Women
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Violence
Myanmar: five female political prisoners hospitalized in brutal assault by prison officers
At least five female inmates have been hospitalized