Information ReleaseDate: October 18, 2010Support Min Ko Naing and his fellow democracy activistsMin Ko Naing’s 48th birthdayAssistance Association for Political Prisoners18 October, 2010Today Min Ko Naing will spend his 48th Birthday imprisoned and cut off from the people of Burma.…
Summary of current situation There are a total of 2193 political prisoners in Burma. This is an overall increase of 10 in comparison to last month’s figure of 2,183. In September, 13political prisoners were arrested, four of those arrested were released within…
Summary of current situation There are a total of 2,183 political prisoners in Burma. This is an overall increase of 9 in comparison to last month’s figure of 2,174. In August, 2 political prisoners were arrested, and 3 were released. The AAPP also received…
Information ReleaseDate: August 19 2010[Maesot, Thailand] the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners- Burma warmly applauds the United States of America for their decision to support the establishment of a United Nations Commission of Inquiry to investigate crimes against humanity in…
Information ReleaseDate: August 12 2010AAPP denounces inappropriate prison transfers of elderly Political prisoner, Gen. Hso TenThe Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) (AAPP) received information that General Hso Ten was transferred to three different prisons in one week, in a…
Summary of current situation There are a total of 2,174 political prisoners in Burma. This is an overall increase of 3 in comparison to last month’s figure of 2,171. In July, 2 political prisoners were arrested, and 4 were released. This retroactive…
Information ReleaseDate: 6 July 2010The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners has submitted its report to the UN Human Rights Council for the Universal Periodic Review of Burma. The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a new mechanism of the Human Rights…
Summary of current situation There are a total of 2,171 political prisoners in Burma. This is an overall increase of 14 in comparison to last month’s figure of 2,157. In June, no activists were arrested and no political prisoners were…
Summary of current situation There are a total of 2,157 political prisoners in Burma. This is an overall decrease of 42 in comparison to last month’s figure of 2,1991. In May 3 activists were arrested, 2 sentenced and 1 political prisoners was released. Since the protests in August…
Information ReleaseDate: 19 May 2010We, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma), have learnt that Ko Kyaw Soe passed away in Myingyan Prison on the morning of 19 May 2010, at age 39. He is the 144th political prisoner to…