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Burma: Lawyer’s Testimony Highlights Distorted Justice
16 Dec 2008 22:39:51 GMT
Source: Human Rights Watch
<p>(New York, December 16, 2008) - Burma's military government has used the country's legal mechanisms to intimidate political prisoners and to deny them access to justice, Human Rights Watch said today, citing new testimony from a defense lawyer who has just fled the country.</p> <p><a href="http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2008/12/16/burma-lawyer-s-testimony-highlights-distorted-justice">read more</a></p>


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