JAMES MAWDSLEY HUNGER STRIKE IN SHA

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Subject: JAMES MAWDSLEY HUNGER STRIKE IN SHAN STATE PRISON 

ABSDF DOCUMENTATION wrote:
> 
>     British-Australian Activist and Political Prisoner James Mosely
>            Staging Hunger-strike Campaign in Kentung Prison
> 
> News from Shan State stated that British-Australian activist and
> political prisoner James Rupert Russell Mosely has began staging an
> ongoing hunger-strike campaign in the Kentung prison as of December
> 18th 1999.
> 
> James Mosely was arrested on August 31st 1999 in Tachileik by the
> military government for distributing anti-SPDC documents.
> 
> He was charged under Article 17 of the Press and Publishers'
> Registration Act of 1962 in the Tachileik township court. A secondary
> charge of illegal entry was placed upon him as well based on Article
> 13(1) of the Immigration Act of 1947. Although Mosely has been charged
> with a severe sentence of 17 years imprisonment, the grounds under
> which the SPDC government is basing the sentence is unjustifiable. The
> reason being that the documents found on Mosely were printed outside
> of Burma thereby not infringing any of the Press and Publishers'
> Registration Act. He also paid the legal entry fee of five American
> dollars into Tachileik, as stated by the government. Despite the
> SPDC's unsustainable evidence James Mosely was imprisoned at Kentung
> prison in Shan State for 17 years.
> 
> James Mosely had been arrested two times prior to his current
> imprisonment for demonstrating against the SPDC's oppression of
> freedom and harsh abuses against human rights. The arrests were
> conducted in the townships of Rangoon and Moulmein.
> 
> As of December 18th 1999, James Mosely began his ongoing hunger-strike
> campaign in Kentung prison to this day. Sources near the Kentung
> prison states that he has taken nothing by mouth except for water. It
> has been known that the reason behind his hunger-strike campaign is to
> demonstrate against the unlawful imprisonment of student leader Minn
> Ko Naing also know as Paw Oo Htun.
> 
> The Documentation and Research Center
> All burma Students' Democratic Front.
> 
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> All Burma Students' Democratic Front
> 
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