Day: January 26, 2010

Ngwe Soe Linn, who was arrested in 2008 for taking pictures of ballot stations during the national referendum yesterday made his first court appearance.

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Whistleblower moved to Bago prison
Jan 26, 2010 (DVB)–The former Burmese army official sentenced to death this month for leaking state secrets has been moved from Rangoon’s Insein prison, as his family prepares to appeal his sentence.

Win Naing Kyaw, who was arrested last year and charged with leaking information on top-level Burmese military visits to Russia and North Korea, was handed the death sentence and multiple prison terms by the Insein prison court on 7 January.
Another fellow whistleblower and former government official was also sentenced to death for the leak, while a third man was given a 15-year sentence. They are also accused of passing information to exiled Burmese media detailing North Korean involvement in a military tunnel project in Burma.
A source close to Insein prison said that Win Naing Kyaw was moved last Saturday to Tharrawaddy prison in Bago division, 100 miles north of Rangoon.
The transfer of prisoners is often done to restrict access for visiting family members and lawyers, who are now in the process of launching an appeal. Continue reading “Ngwe Soe Linn, who was arrested in 2008 for taking pictures of ballot stations during the national referendum yesterday made his first court appearance.” →

ဇန္န၀ါရီလ ၂၆ရက္။ ေစာသိန္းျမင့္ by Karen Information Center 26.01.

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ၿပီးခဲ့ေသာႏွစ္က ထုိးစစ္ေၾကာင့္ ထုိင္းနယ္စပ္သုိ႔ ထြက္ေျပးေရာက္ရွိလာသည့္ စစ္ေျပးကရင္ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားကို ျမန္မာျပည္ဘက္ ျခမ္းသုိ႔ ျပန္ထားမည္ဟု ထုိင္းအာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက ယေန႕တြင္ ဆုံးျဖတ္လုိက္သည္ဟု သိရသည္။

အဆုိပါ ဒုကၡသည္ကိစၥမ်ားႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ သက္ဆုိင္ရာ ထုိင္းအာဏာပိုင္မ်ား အပါအ၀င္ UNHCR, TBBC, ေကအဲန္ယူ

ဖားအံခရုိင္တာ၀န္ရွိသူမ်ားႏွင့္ ဒီေကဘီေအ တပ္မဟာ (၉၉၉) တပ္ရင္း(၇) တာ၀န္ရွိသူမ်ားက ယေန႔တြင္ ထုိင္းႏုိင္ငံဘက္ ျခမ္းရွိ ႏုိဘုိးေက်းရြာမွာ ၂နာရီေက်ာ္ၾကာ ေတြ႔ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးကာ အျပန္အလွန္ ညွိႏႈိင္းခဲ့ၾကၿပီး ဆုံးျဖတ္ခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္သည္ဟု ႏုိဘုိး ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းမွ တာ၀န္ရွိသူတဦးက ဆုိသည္။ Continue reading “ဇန္န၀ါရီလ ၂၆ရက္။ ေစာသိန္းျမင့္ by Karen Information Center 26.01.” →