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Myanmar Breaks Pledge to Free Political Prisoners

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Sep 29, 2015
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In July of 2013, Myanmar‘s President Thein Sein stated that by the end of that year, two years after the election of a nominally civilian government pledged to democratic rule, there would be no prisoners of conscience left in the country’s jails. He was wrong. There are still opponents left in Myanmar’s jails and they are being joined by a growing numb…

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