"Recently the President of Burma has been granting amnesty to political prisoners across the country. However, these grants have not reached every case, and do not address some of the most recent issues involving politically motivated mass arrests. Specifically, the government?s newspaper, The Global New Light of Myanmar has published a list of political prisoners that have not been granted amnesty. Moreover, the last year has seen a dramatic number of farmers arrested and locked up by the military while trying to regain possession of their own lands. A list of remaining political prisoners and the charges for which they are serving their sentences; 27 out of 30 have been published in state?s own newspaper on 1 November 2014. According to the list, a significant number of the prisoners are from ethnic armed groups, who are charged over bombings. The list however, fails to address the issue that many are being punished without having had any chance to defend themselves in military court. Additionally, some cases include information that appears to suggest the law is being violated regarding the criminal sentencing of the otherwise political prisoners. The situation is not just a holdover from the former military government. The most recent prisoners, La Phine Gam and Bran Yong, were convicted over alleged involvement in a militant ethnic based anti-government group and several bombings in 2012. The two men were interrogated and tortured. The court, aware that they had been tortured, created two criminal charges against them base on the confession extracted through torture, and convicted them without any other evidence..."