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    There are over 2,100 political prisoners in Burma. They have been imprisoned just for peacefully calling for democracy and freedom in Burma. Once in prison, democracy activists face horrific torture, including electric shocks, rape, iron rods rubbed on their shins until the flesh rubs off, severe beatings and solitary confinement. Many prisoners are kept in their cells 24 hours a day, given inadequate food and are in poor health. However, the regime appears to be systematically denying medical treatment to political prisoners. Burma's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said, “the release of political prisoners is the most important thing for all those who truly wish to bring about change in Burma". The United Nations Security Council has called for political prisoners to be released but must do more to make sure this happens. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will visit Burma in December. He must make the release of all Burma’s political prisoners his top priority during his visit.

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    There are over 2,100 political prisoners in Burma. They have been imprisoned just for peacefully calling for democracy and freedom in Burma. Once in prison, democracy activists face horrific torture, including electric shocks, rape, iron rods rubbed on their shins until the flesh rubs off, severe beatings and solitary confinement. Many prisoners are kept in their cells 24 hours a day, given inadequate food and are in poor health. However, the regime appears to be systematically denying medical treatment to political prisoners. Burma's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said, “the release of political prisoners is the most important thing for all those who truly wish to bring about change in Burma". The United Nations Security Council has called for political prisoners to be released but must do more to make sure this happens. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will visit Burma in December. He must make the release of all Burma’s political prisoners his top priority during his visit.

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    Free Burma Political Prisoners Now

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    There are over 2,100 political prisoners in Burma. They have been imprisoned just for peacefully calling for democracy and freedom in Burma. Once in prison, democracy activists face horrific torture, including electric shocks, rape, iron rods rubbed on their shins until the flesh rubs off, severe beatings and solitary confinement. Many prisoners are kept in their cells 24 hours a day, given inadequate food and are in poor health. However, the regime appears to be systematically denying medical treatment to political prisoners. Burma's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said, “the release of political prisoners is the most important thing for all those who truly wish to bring about change in Burma". The United Nations Security Council has called for political prisoners to be released but must do more to make sure this happens. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will visit Burma in December. He must make the release of all Burma’s political prisoners his top priority during his visit.

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    FREE BURMA�S POLITICAL PRISONERS NOW!

    Sign the Petition at www.fbppn.net


    Tell your friends to sign the petition
    888,888 Signatures for Burma
    �My son was in prison for
    over a decade and now he is
    in again � that is very
    painful for us."
    U Win Maung, father of Pyone
    Cho, August 2008.
    Htay Win Aung aka Pyone Cho
    About Pyone Cho
    Pyone Cho has already been to prison several times
    for his pro-democracy work. But despite having
    spent more than 14 years in prison, Pyone Cho is a
    funny guy. While he was in prison he was
    affectionately known as �joker�, as he was always
    teasing his friends and making them laugh. Although
    he likes to make his friends laugh, he is also a quiet and calm person who prefers
    to stay in
    the background. He has special responsibility for human rights as a leader of the
    88
    Generation Students group. Pyone Cho was released in 2004 and got straight back to
    his
    work, even though he had already given up many years of his life for the struggle
    for
    democracy. Together with Min Ko Naing, Ko Ko Gyi and Htay Kywe, he helped form the
    88
    Generation Students group in September 2005. A year later he and his friends were
    arrested
    again, this time for the �White Sunday� campaign. Every Sunday they organized at
    least 100
    people to wear white clothes (like the prisoner uniform) and visited the families
    of political
    prisoners, to support them and encourage them to stay strong. While he was in
    detention, his
    brother Thet Win Aung � also a political prisoner � died in prison. Sadly Pyone
    Cho was not
    allowed to go to his funeral. He was released again in January 2007 and got
    married in April
    that year. He invited 22 of his friends to go with him on his honeymoon, as he
    knew that few
    of them would get another chance to go to the beach. Aung Kyaw Oo, who spent 8
    years in
    prison with Pyone Cho, said, �Ko Pyone Cho is a very kind and generous man. It was
    good
    to have him in prison with me because he is so funny.� Pyone Cho was arrested
    again on 22
    August 2007 and was recently sentenced to more than 65 years in prison.
    Name: Pyone Cho
    Age: 42 in 2008
    Organisation: 88 Generation Students
    group
    Role: Leader
    Previous Prison
    Term:
    More than 14 years
    Current Sentence: 65 years & 6 months
    Detained: Kawthaung Prison,
    Tenasserim Division, nearly
    800 miles from Rangoon

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