The 14th edition of the jhr Rights Report focuses on Burma [5]. After repeated calls by the international community [6] to stop human rights violations, Myanmar's regime is releasing political prisoners and allowing democracy activists to regroup under the National League for Democracy [7] party banner.
*Rights Report news update* Egyptian blogger Maikel Nabil [8] was finally released by authorities after spending 10 months in prison for an article [9] critical of the ruling military elites.
Also this week, jhr U.S. correspondent Joey Grihalva reports on the movement to free Bradley Manning [10], the U.S. military analyst accused of leaking sensitive government documents to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks [11].
Links:
[1] http://rabble.ca/category/podcasts/current-affairs/journalists-human-rights
[2] http://rabble.ca/audio/by/artist/jhr
[3] http://rabble.ca/audio/by/title/rights_report
[4] http://rabble.ca/audio/by/year/2012
[5] http://www.hrw.org/burma
[6] http://www.ohchr.org/en/countries/asiaregion/pages/mmindex.aspx
[7] http://www.nldburma.org/
[8] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fePfun2Gbg8&feature=youtu.be&a
[9] http://www.maikelnabil.com/
[10] http://www.bradleymanning.org/
[11] http://wikileaks.org/
[12] http://rabble.ca/user
[13] http://rabble.ca/user/register