Tuesday, September 23, 2008

News at Eleven: Win Tin was Burma's longest-serving political prisoner,

according to the UN and human rights groups which had repeatedly called for his release.

A poet, editor and close aide to Ms Suu Kyi, he was originally arrested in July 1989.

Once in jail, he received additional sentences for agitating against the military junta and distributing propaganda.

from BBC News: Burmese democracy veteran freed

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