Burma’s 75 Year old Dissident.

Socio-political Rants.

From Reporters Without Borders.

On 12 March, Win Tin will be celebrating his 75th birthday in his cell.

Win Tin, one of the political mentors of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung
San Suu Kyi, continues to serve his 20-year prison sentence. He was
convicted of "subversion" and "anti-government propaganda." He has been
shuttling back and forth between his cell and the spartan prisoners’
wing of Rangoon hospital for the past few years.

He is regularly offered freedom in
exchange for a signed promise to give up all political activity. But
"Saya" (Teacher), as his friends call him, has always refused to cut
such a deal and break his ties with the National League for Democracy,
which was cheated out of its landslide victory at the 1990 general
elections.

Further information about Win Tin

Over 15 years ago, Reporters without
Borders created its "Sponsorship Programme" and called upon the
international media to select and support an imprisoned journalist.
More than two hundreds news staffs around the globe are thus sponsoring
colleagues by publicising their situations so that their cases will not
be forgotten.

Sign the petition

Currently, Win Tin is sponsored by 40 news organizations :

France : TF1, Le
Journal du Dimanche, Télérama, Gavroche, Le Monde, Les Dernières
nouvelles d’Alsace, BFM, ARTE, Humanisme, Azur FM, Le Peuple, Club de
la presse de Nîmes, Paris Normandie, Institut pratique de journalisme,
Maire de France, Agriculture horizon, Humanisme, France 3 sud
Languedoc-Roussilon, Romans Magazine, L’Humanité

Belgium : Le Soir
magazine, Le Soir, BEL-RTL, Le Vif/L’Express, RTBF, RTL-TVI, Vers
l’avenir, Fun Radio, Radio Contact/ Contact Inter, Enjeux
Internationaux

Canada : Emission "Points Chauds" de Telequebec,  "Echos Vedettes", Ottawa Sun

Spain : Cadena Ser,
Tiempo, Perfiles, TV3 Catalunya, Asociación de la Prensa de Cádiz,
Agencia Cover, El Correo Español/El Pueblo Vasco