"The international community is normalising relations, praising reforms and lifting pressure on Burma despite the fact that the military-backed government keeps hundreds of political prisoners in jail. Hundreds of political prisoners remain in jail two years after the reform process started. The Burmese government has used releases of political prisoners as public relations exercises to achieve good publicity, and to persuade the international community to lift sanctions. The release of political prisoners is often timed to coincide with key political developments in order to try and convince the international community about the reforms...n addition, more activists and ethnic people are being arrested, and sometimes tortured brutally and forced to make false confessions. Following his visit to Burma in February 2013, the UN Special Rapporteur not only highlighted the on- going detention of political prisoners, but also the increasing reports of the use of torture against some detainees..."