Burma's junta arrests activists

Burma’s military junta detained two prominent anti-government activists, one of them a Buddhist monk, dissidents said, even as the government hosted a United Nations human rights investigator and insisted that all arrests had stopped.

Burma's junta arrests activists

Burma’s military junta detained two prominent anti-government activists, one of them a Buddhist monk, dissidents said, even as the government hosted a United Nations human rights investigator and insisted that all arrests had stopped.

One of the two arrests came as UN human rights envoy Paulo Sergio Pinheiro met Cabinet ministers in the junta’s remote, jungle capital Naypyitaw.

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