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Burmese monks and activists tortured

Source: Myanmar News

Yangon : Myanmar | 10 months ago

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Myanmar's military junta is making political prisoners live in unhealthy living conditions, depriving them of adequate food and medical care and denying their families the right to visit by transferring them to remote prisons, this according to prisoners' families and pro- rights groups.

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