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     Jailed Burmese novelist allowed to visit family for three hours

New Delhi, April 24, 2001
Mizzima News Group (www.mizzima.com)

Burma?s prominent imprisoned journalist and writer Daw San San Nweh was
allowed to visit her family in Rangoon by the ruling military junta in
early this month, according to a press release of Reporters Sans
Frontieres (RSF) today. The visit took place on 8th April and she was
able to converse with her family, especially her six children, for three
hours under the guard of Burmese military intelligence personnel.

For the first time since she was jailed in August 1994, the 56-year old
writer and novelist was seen leaving the Insein Prison in Rangoon in the
morning of that day escorted by ten members of the military intelligence
and visited her family in Yankin, a suburb of Rangoon.

Daw San San Nweh, a close associate of Burma?s opposition leader and
Nobel Peace laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, was arrested on 5 August 1994
and sentenced in October of the same year to ten years in jail for
?producing and sending information harmful to the state?. All her
writings and even re-printing of her writings have been banned in Burma
since then.

?During her seven years of detention, she has suffered from several
diseases: high blood pressure, kidney infection and thrombocytopenia (an
abnormal number of platelets in the blood). She shares her cell with
three others personalities of the National League for Democracy (LND).
Prisoners sleep on bamboo mats on the ground. The toilet ­ a mud bowl in
the corner of the room ­ is cleared once a day only. From 6 am the women
are forced to sit cross-legged on the ground with their heads bowed.
Speaking is forbidden and disobedience is punished,? said the statement.

The Paris-based RSF and the French section of Amnesty International will
hold a public protest tomorrow in front of the Burmese embassy in France
demanding the Burmese junta to immediately release her.

The RSF said that Burma is the Asian country where the largest number of
journalists are in jail.



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<p><font color="#FF0000"><font size=+1>New Delhi, April 24, 2001</font></font>
<br><font color="#FF0000"><font size=+1>Mizzima News Group <a href="http://www.mizzima.com";>(www.mizzima.com)</a></font></font>
<p><font size=+1>Burma?s prominent imprisoned journalist and writer Daw
San San Nweh was allowed to visit her family in Rangoon by the ruling military
junta in early this month, according to a press release of Reporters Sans
Frontieres (RSF) today. The visit took place on 8th April and she was able
to converse with her family, especially her six children, for three hours
under the guard of Burmese military intelligence personnel.</font>
<p><font size=+1>For the first time since she was jailed in August 1994,
the 56-year old writer and novelist was seen leaving the Insein Prison
in Rangoon in the morning of that day escorted by ten members of the military
intelligence and visited her family in Yankin, a suburb of Rangoon.</font>
<p><font size=+1>Daw San San Nweh, a close associate of Burma?s opposition
leader and Nobel Peace laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, was arrested on 5
August 1994 and sentenced in October of the same year to ten years in jail
for ?producing and sending information harmful to the state?. All her writings
and even re-printing of her writings have been banned in Burma since then.</font>
<p><font size=+1>?During her seven years of detention, she has suffered
from several diseases: high blood pressure, kidney infection and thrombocytopenia
(an abnormal number of platelets in the blood). She shares her cell with
three others personalities of the National League for Democracy (LND).
Prisoners sleep on bamboo mats on the ground. The toilet &shy; a mud bowl
in the corner of the room &shy; is cleared once a day only. From 6 am the
women are forced to sit cross-legged on the ground with their heads bowed.
Speaking is forbidden and disobedience is punished,? said the statement.</font>
<p><font size=+1>The Paris-based RSF and the French section of Amnesty
International will hold a public protest tomorrow in front of the Burmese
embassy in France demanding the Burmese junta to immediately release her.</font>
<p><font size=+1>The RSF said that Burma is the Asian country where the
largest number of journalists are in jail.</font>
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