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• Kyaw Zaw Lwin a.k.a Nyi Nyi Aung Detained Burmese-American thrown into dog-cell !!!!!!

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 156
  Monday, 21 December 2009 21:48 Myint Maung New Delhi (Mizzima) – Detained Burmese American, Kyaw Zaw Lwin a.k.a Nyi Nyi Aung, has been shifted to a separate room, called military dog-cell, inside the notorious Insein prison, his aunt said. Khin Khin Swe, who was allowed to meet Nyi Nyi Aung on Monday for a ...
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• Congress Letter to General Than Shwe (Nyi Nyi Aung)

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 156
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• Orlando Triana González, Cuban Political Prisoner of the Week, 12/20/09

  
  Uncommon Sense — Authority: 478
  Sticks and stones may break your bones, but it is your misuse of words that can really get you in trouble in communist Cuba. Anti-Castro activist Orlando Triana González learned that recently when he was sentenced to 1 year in prison after being found guilty of "disrespect" and "disobedience." And what exactly ...
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• Detained Burmese-American calls off hunger strike

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 156
  Friday, 18 December 2009 22:57 Myint Maung Burma born US citizen Nyi Nyi Aung called off his hunger strike in Insein prison, his lawyer said on Friday. “It is said that Nyi Nyi Aung ended his hunger strike. His health condition is not serious though he has become thinner. We don’t know when he called it off. ...
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• Detained Shan leader’s health condition worsens-Hkun Htun Oo

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 156
  RIDAY, 18 DECEMBER 2009 16:40 HSENG KHIO FAH Hkun Htun Oo, 66, detained chairman of the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD), Burma’s second largest winning party in the 1990 elections, is reported to be undergoing a serious health condition, according to Sai Lake, the party’s spokesperson. He has ...
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• Socially dangerous Cuban activist gets 2 years in jail

  
  Uncommon Sense — Authority: 478
  Cuban opposition activist Omar Vidal Núñez Espinosa last month was sentenced to 2 years in prison after being found to be a "pre-criminal social danger." No details were available on what "socially dangerous" thing he did to get himself thrown in jail, but it likely had everything to do with his activities with ...
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• Cuban political prisoner Orlando Zapata in danger of death

  
  Uncommon Sense — Authority: 478
  Orlando Zapata Tamayo The extremes to which some Cuban political prisoners will go to demonstrate their resistance to their captors — for example, hunger strikes — is astounding. But so also are the cruelties they are forced to bear in the Castro gulag. Please keep that in mind as you consider the case of — ...
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• Diaz-Balart stands up for Antúnez

  
  Uncommon Sense — Authority: 478
  Antúnez and his wife Yris U.S. Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart took to the House floor Monday evening to speak up on behalf of Cuban human rights activists Jorge Luis García Perez and his wife Yris, after they were arrested Friday, three days after Antúnez released an open letter he wrote to Raúl Castro. Here is ...
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• Cuban political prisoner Ariel Sigler still a paraplegic

  
  Uncommon Sense — Authority: 478
  Ariel Sigler Amaya For more months, Cuban prisoner of conscience Ariel Sigler Amaya has languished in a prison hospital, confined to a wheelchair as various ailments consume the former heavyweight boxers body. Obviously, Cuban health care is doing him no favors. So the only obvious conclusion as to why ...
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• Cuban political prisoners health worsens in jail

  
  Uncommon Sense — Authority: 478
  A Cuban prison is no place to get sick. Cuban health care may be a "miracle" outside the gulags walls but inside, medical care — or better put, the lack of care — is just another weapon the Castro dictatorship uses against its opponents. With malignant neglect, guards and other prison officials torture their ...
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• 5 Cuban prisoners of conscience fast for human rights

  
  Uncommon Sense — Authority: 478
  Five Cuban prisoners of conscience — Pablo Pacheco Ávila , Adolfo Fernández Sainz , Félix Navarro Rodríguez , Antonio Díaz Sánchez and Pedro Arguelles Morán — commemorated International Human Rights Day last week by fasting for a day as a way to pay tribute for the Universal Declaration of ...
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• Ricardo González Alfonso, Cuban Political Prisoner of the Week, 12/13/09

  
  Uncommon Sense — Authority: 478
  This post will remain at the top of the page through Friday, events allowing. To read newer posts, scroll down. Ricardo González Alfonso Ricardo González Alfonso was one of the more accomplished independent journalists/independent librarians/pro-freedom activists jailed during the Cuban "black ...
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• Letter to Raúl Castro gets Antúnez arrested

  
  Uncommon Sense — Authority: 478
  Iris Tamara Pérez Aguilera and "Antúnez" On Tuesday, human rights activist and former political prisoner Jorge Luis García Pérez "Antúnez released an open letter to Cuban dictator Raúl Castro in which he denounced the repression that is a way of life in Cuba and asked Castro several questions about ...
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• Two Iranian Christian women released from Iranian prison after 259 days

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 553
  Marzieh Amirizadeh, 30, and Maryam Rustampoor, 27 Story from Christianity Today . Excerpt: Coming on the heels of the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (Nov. 8), Christian religious-freedom groups celebrated a victory yesterday in Iran. Marzieh Amirizadeh Esmaeilabad, 30, and Maryam ...
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• Darsi Ferrers wife is arrested (UPDATED)

  
  Uncommon Sense — Authority: 478
  Cuban independent journalist Damian Sanchez reports what happened this morning when activists gathered at a Havana park to march for human rights in Cuba. Yusnaimy Jorge Soca , the wife of Cuban political prisoner Dr. Darsi Ferrer , hadnt quite made it to the park when she was arrested by the secret police. ...
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• Blogburts/blogacción, 12/10/09 | Free Darsi Ferrer NOW!

  
  Uncommon Sense — Authority: 478
  Dr. Darsi Ferrer is a soldier for freedom in Cuba, fighting back against the lies and the myths and the repression that has defined the Castro dictatorship for more than 50 years. As a physician, he has broken from the communist system and provided real care for his patients, not the propaganda about the Cuban ...
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• Cuba gulag is no place for a sick political prisoner

  
  Uncommon Sense — Authority: 478
  Just ask Ricardo Gonzalez Alfonso. Or Prospero Gainza Agüero.
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• Cuban prisoners launch protest over water

  
  Uncommon Sense — Authority: 478
  There are a lot of things you wont find in a Cuban prison, and lately at least one Castro jail, Mar Verde in Santiago de Cuba, that includes drinkable water. "Water, water, we want water!" chanted prisoners during a midnight protest recently, according to a report from prisoner of conscience Luis Enrique Ferrer ...
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• In Cuba, Dec. 10 has a name

  
  Uncommon Sense — Authority: 478
  Ainí Martín, left, Yusnaimy Jorge and Jorges husband, Dr. Darsi Ferrer (Photo: http://elblogdeainimartin.blogspot.com/ ) In Cuba, writes independent journalist Ainí Martín Valero, the struggle for human rights has a name. In Cuba, International Human Rights Day, which is Thursday, Dec., 10, has a name. In ...
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• BIO Kyaw_Zaw_Lwin_aka_Nyi_Nyi_Aung

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 156
  View this document on Scribd Breaking News Political Prisoner on Hunger Strike For Immediate Release: December 7, 2009 Kyaw Zaw Lwin (a.k.a. Nyi Nyi Aung), a political prisoner in Burma’s notorious Insein Prison, is currently on hunger strike. He is on hunger strike to protest losing prisoners’ rights. ...
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