Tag Archives : political prisoners

This question seems totally meaningless. Aung San Suu Kyi has spent most of her life between prison and house-arrest. The verdict at the end of this week will again be one of the two. Freedom and justice will again be denied to world’s most popular brave Burmese opposition leader and to the people of Burma. The trial of Burmese opposition leader Aung [...]

For more than 50 years, North Korea has been operating prison camps that are actually forced labor concentration camps. Government and political oppositionists are incarcerated and forced to do slave labor in these camps which hold an estimated 200,000 prisoners. Forced labor has been regarded as ‘an opportunity for redemption.’ North Korea’s [...]