Burma Campaign UK
Federation of Trade Unions – Burma Press Release: Burmese military regime arrests trade union members in Burma: FTUB unlawfully detained, likely tortured On April 1, 2009, five members of the Federation Trade Unions Burma (FTUB) were arrested in their homes in Rangoon after returning from border areas where they had participated as delegates in the …
A new electronic censorship system in Burma exposes the lack of reform that can be expected after elections in 2010. In February 2009 Major Tint Swe, Director of the Press Scrutiny and Registration Division at the Ministry of Information, announced that the regime will be moving from a paper based censorship system to digital censorship …
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE BURMA JUSTICE COMMITTEE Today sees the publication of one of the most important international law judgments in recent years. In a heavily argued case, decided last November but only now made public, the international legal system has ruled in the clearest possible terms that the military regime in Burma has contravened …
EMBARGOED FOR 0001 TUESDAY 24TH MARCH 2009 PRESS RELEASE FROM FREEDOM NOW Contact: Ted Loud +1 (202) 799-4348 UN DECLARES NOBEL PEACE PRIZE LAUREATE AUNG SAN SUU KYI OF BURMA’S DETENTION ILLEGAL; URGES HER IMMEDIATE AND UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE Washington, D.C. – Today, Freedom Now released Opinion No. 46/2008 from the UN Working Group on Arbitrary …
A demonstration will be held today outside Liverpool Street station to call for the release of political prisoners in Burma. The demonstration has been organised by Amnesty International and will be attended by Amnesty International student leaders from across the UK and members of the Burmese Community in London. “The regime wants the world to …
Thirty- thousand people are supporting Aung San Suu Kyi on the Facebook social networking website. A Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Aung-San-Suu-Kyi/9953503420?ref=pdb enables people to become a supporter of Aung San Suu Kyi and receive regular updates about the situation in Burma. The high number of supporters puts her in the top one hundred political leaders of all time, both …