Fw: Press Release from PD Burma-Jap

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> >Press release                                            September 18th,
> >1999
> >                                                      PD Burma-- Japan
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> >Japan granted Refugee status to husband and wife
> >
> >    Burmese husband and wife were granted refugee status by the
Immigration
> >Bureau of Tokyo on September 17th. The couple are Mr. Phone Myint Tun
(30)
> >and his wife, Dari Myo Myint Nyein. Mr. Phone Myint Tun used to work as a
> >member of Thone Yaung Che which is the guard group of NLD high officials.
In
> >1991, he was arrested and imprisoned in Insein prison. After he released
in
> >1995, started his activism to deliver the information about the situation
> >in the prison to UN offices. After he found to be chased by military
> >intelligence, he evacuated from Burma with his wife. After they landed on
> >Japan to join his mother who already had been living in Japan since 1992,
> >they applied the refugee status besides joining pro-democracy movement in
> >Japan. An article with his photo appeared on the military paper "New
Light
> >of Myanmar" in March 1998, helped to show the evidence of the possible
> >suppression in Burma to Japanese authorities. Japanese authorities
granted
> >refugee status to 8 Burmese dissidents in 1998, also granted to 6 Burmese
> >dissidents in 1999. This amount shows an improvement of Japan's refugee
> >policy to compare with previous years from 1994 to 1997. Only one or two
> >applications had been accepted during these years.
> >
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> >
> >PD Burma-Japan
> >Schu Sugawara
> >schus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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