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	AMNESTY CALLS FOR THREE AILING BURMESE PRISONERS TO BE FREED
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		Saturday 11 October, 1997 (9:31pm AEST)


          Amnesty International has called on Burma's military government 
          to release three
          political prisoners, all aged in their 60s, who were 
          transferred to a hospital for
          medical treatment. 

          The human-rights group asked that Win Tin, Cho Aung Than and 
          Aung Khin Sint,
          all members of the party led Aung San Suu Kyi, "not be returned 
          to prison under
          any circumstances." 

          Human rights workers say Burma's prisons are overcrowded, and 
          unhealthy
          conditions, coupled with delayed medical care have led to the 
          deaths of political
          prisoners in custody. 

          [ABC News, 11 October 1997].

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