CRITERIA FOR AAPP?S DEFINITION OF A POLITICAL PRISONER

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"AAPP defines a political prisoner as anyone who is arrested because of his or her perceived or real active involvement or supporting role in political movements with peaceful or resistant means. AAPP maintains that the motivation behind the arrest of every individual in AAPP?s database is political, regardless of the laws they have been sentenced under..."...List of laws commonly used to arbitrarily detain activists or criminalize dissent.... N. B. the texts of all of these laws can be found in the Law And Constitution section of the Online Burma/Myanmar Library

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Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma)

Date of Publication: 

2011-09-30

Date of entry: 

2011-10-11

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English

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