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>Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 09:10:56 +0700
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>Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 18:40:20 -0400
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>Britain says British woman arrested in Myanmar
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>LONDON, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Britain said on Tuesday a British woman had
>been arrested in Myanmar and it was trying to establish why she had been
>seized. 
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>A BBC report said Rachel Goldwyn, a human rights worker, was arrested
>for singing a revolutionary song at a pro-democracy demonstration. 
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>``We can confirm that Rachel Goldwyn has been arrested by the Burmese
>authorities,'' a Foreign Office spokesman told Reuters. 
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>He said British officials had been in touch with Myanmar's Foreign
>Ministry to try to find out more details and ask for immediate consular
>access. 
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>Earlier on Tuesday, the British embassy in Myanmar said it was
>``concerned'' after its consul was denied access to a British man jailed
>last week for 17 years for pro-democracy activism. 
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>The British consul in Yangon had travelled to Myanmar's remote Shan
>State on Saturday in the hope of getting access to James Mawdsley, 26,
>who was arrested on August 31 and sentenced in a summary trial the
>following day. 
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>Article 36 of the Vienna Convention gives consular officers the right to
>visit and contact nationals in prison, custody or detention and to
>arrange legal representation. 
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>Yangon said access was being arranged. ``Official access will be granted
>soon,'' the government spokesman said in a statement. 
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>Myanmar has said Mawdsley, who also holds an Australian passport, was
>being held in prison in the northeastern town of Kengtung, not far from
>Tachilek on the Thai border where he was arrested carrying pro-democracy
>leaflets. 
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>It is the third time Mawdsley has been detained in Myanmar for
>pro-democracy activism. 
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>Mawdsley's arrest came as dissidents stepped up activity after calling
>for a mass uprising on the numerically significant ``four nines day'' --
>September 9, 1999. 
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>Diplomats estimate the government has arrested more than 100 activists
>to thwart the campaign in the past month. 
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>Myanmar's military has been criticised worldwide for human rights abuses
>since taking direct power in 1988 by killing thousands to crush a
>pro-democracy uprising. 
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>It ignored the result of the last election in 1990 when the National
>League for Democracy won by a landslide and has since tried to silence
>dissent through arrests and intimidation. 
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