The trial of Senior General Than Shwe
Aung San Suu Kyi could be the Burmese regime’s greatest ally. The sentence today signals a missed opportunity as well as a travesty of justice, says Maung Zarni (more…)
Hillary Clinton offers support to Maziar Bahari
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that the United States has “expressed our concern about Maziar Bahari’s confinement and trial” to the Canadian government and offered to help. Newsweek’s Tehran correspondent was detained on 21 June as part of Iran’s post-election crackdown on the media. This week her husband, Bill Clinton, returned from North Korea having obtained the release of two imprisoned US journalists. Read more here
Burma: prepared for the worst
Aung San Suu Kyi and her supporters are not optimistic about the verdict in her trial for breaching the conditions of house arrest, writes
Nem Davies
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US and family concern for jailed reporters
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the government was “pursuing every possible approach” over the two US journalists held in North Korea as their families have pleaded with the authorities there to set the pair free. Read more here