"Than Than Htay, a 50-year-old former political prisoner, feels insecure whenever one of her family members yells at her cat, a companion she brought with her upon her release from prison five years ago. ?They would say ?Put that cat back in prison!? and I felt really insecure because I sometimes wondered if they wanted my cat or me to be back in prison again,” she told The Irrawaddy at the report launch of ?After Release I Had To Restart My Life From the Beginning” in Rangoon on Wednesday. The report gathered data from more than 1,600 former political prisoners from January 2014 to July 2015, and was published by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) (AAPP) and the Former Political Prisoners Society (FPPS). It examines the life experiences of Burma?s former political prisoners and the mistreatment that they encountered in prisons under the military regime. According to the report, Burma has had between 7,000 and 10,000 political prisoners since 1962..."