Democratic Voice of Burma reports that 87 year old Kyaw Khaing, chairman of the Taungok township branch of the National League for Democracy, was sentenced to two years in jail, after a trial during which he was denied medical care. He was “slipping in and out of consciousness” during the trial.
“"He has been suffering from dysentery for the last three to four days and he had to be supported [on the way] to the court,” said Tin Thein Aung.
““Deputy police chief Tin Maung San would not allow him to be hospitalized,” he said, adding that the doctor refused to come to the courtroom but instead handed medicine to his son.
This is a nice touch:
“The verdict arrived on the same day that Burma’s ambassador to the United Nations, Than Swe, announced that the government “is processing to grant amnesty to prisoners on humanitarian grounds and with a view to enabling them to participate in the 2010 general elections."”
Roughly one in five of political prisoners in Burma’s jails are members of the NLD.
