San San Nweh
San San Nweh
"Dissident writer San San Nweh, 57, was editor of two journals Gita Ppade-tha and Einmet-hpu and is a novelist and poet.
"She was imprisoned for ten years in August 1994 for "anti-government reports" to French journalists and for "providing information about the human rights situation to the UN special rapporteur for Burma."" [1]
"Well-known French TV journalist Christine Ockrent has presented Burmese opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi with the 1999 Reporters Without Borders / Fondation de France Prize to pass on to winner San San Nweh.
"Ockrent, who is also a member of the board of Reporters Without Borders, handed over the prize at a meeting on 31 December 2002 at the opposition politician’s home in Rangoon, where they discussed the fate of other journalists imprisoned in the country, including 73-year-old Win Tin, who has been in jail for the past 13 years." [2]
"The World Association of Newspapers has awarded its annual press freedom prize, the 2001 Golden Pen of Freedom, to imprisoned Burmese journalists San San Nweh and U Win Tin in recognition of their outstanding services to the cause of press freedom." [3]
"Burmese journalist, San San Nweh, was released from prison yesterday, June 18, 2001 along with ten other members of the National League for Democracy (NLD)." [4]
She writes that "In the years 1988 and 1989, just before U Win Tin was imprisoned, I had a close friendship with him, while he was Secretary of the National League for Democracy. I worked as a member of the Divisional Organizing Committee and an executive member of the Central Intellectual Group." [5]
- Winner of the 1999 Reporters Sans Frontieres-Fondation de France prize [6]
- Winner of 2001 HRW Hellman-Hammett Grant [7]
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- ↑ Appaling conditions for jailed journalists San San Nweh and U Win Tin, IFEX, accessed October 17, 2007.
- ↑ San San Nweh finally gets 1999 Reporters Without Borders prize, Reporters Without Borders, accessed October 17, 2007.
- ↑ The Golden Pen of Freedom, World Association of Newspapers, accessed October 3, 2007.
- ↑ Imprisoned Burmese Journalist Released, Refugees International, accessed October 17, 2007.
- ↑ [http://www.wan-press.org/3may/2006/articles.php?id=8 A Tribute to U Win Tin], World Association of Newspapers, accessed October 17, 2007.
- ↑ Hafnaoui Ghoul wins the Reporters Without Borders - Fondation de France Prize 2004, RSF, accessed October 3, 2007.
- ↑ Short Biographies of the 2001 Recipients, Human Rights Watch, accessed October 17, 2007.
