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Calls for dissidents to be released in Burma
ABC News Online - November 13, 2008
A leading human rights group has urged Burma's junta to free 70 activists currently on trial, after the military regime handed down a string of hefty jail sentences to dissidents.
At least 23 people arrested after last year's anti junta demonstrations were given prison sentences on Tuesday. Most have been sentenced to 65 years behind bars at Rangoon's Insein Prison.
New York based Human Rights Watch has called the trials unfair. It says the detainees should not be punished for taking part in the peaceful protests in August and September last year, which were suppressed by the military.
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