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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Draconian laws preventing freedom of association and expression remained in place, so that ten years after the SLORC/SPDC assumed power, Burma still had no indigenous human rights organizations. In August, eighteen foreign human rights activists (from Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, the U.S., and Australia) were arrested in Burma while handing out leaflets commemorating the 1988 uprising. After interrogation, they were charged under the 1950 Emergency Provisions Act and sentenced to five years imprisonment, then immediately deported. For the third year running, the Special Rapporteur to Burma, Justice Rajsoomer Lallah, was also denied permission to visit the country. |
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