Zarganar | Simon Roughneen

Punishments reduced, but Burma’s harsh online law remains – The Irrawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/burma/punishments-reduced-burmas-harsh-online-law-remains.html RANGOON — Burma’s restrictive Electronic Transactions Law, under which political dissidents were in the past imprisoned for sending...

Evasive and divisive: Myanmar probe into Rakhine violence falls short – The Edge Review

pdf/digital versions here – http://www.theedgereview.com/ Yangon – The Muslims listening weren’t happy. Five of the 27 original members of...

Rohingya leaders angered by official Arakan report – The Irrawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/33264 RANGOON — Rohingya leaders have reacted angrily to the findings of the official investigation into a wave of...

Wait for official Arakan report, says Burma government – The Irrawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/32604 RANGOON — Following publication of a Human Rights Watch report alleging government complicity in ethnic cleansing in Burma’s...

Speaking to “The People’s Loudspeaker” – The Irrawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=20742 BANGKOK — Maung Thura, known and loved throughout Burma as Zarganar, was jailed in 2008 for 35 years...

Hope for dissidents behind bars? – South China Morning Post

http://www.scmp.com/vgn-ext-templating/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=a59173cebca4c210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD&s=News&ss=Asia+%26+World BANGKOK – On Saturday, artist and former political prisoner Htein Lin opened a new exhibition in Bangkok, with...

Standing out in the crowd – The Irrawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=19519 BANGKOK—Somber, gloomy, provocative are probably overused words when it comes to talking about art, but these adjectives aptly...