BBC : Burma allows embassy visits t

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Tuesday, August 11, 1998 Published at 13:13 GMT 14:13 UK 

Burma allows embassy visits to foreigners in detention 

The Burmese authorities have allowed diplomatic officials to visit some of
the foreigners detained in the capital, Rangoon, on Sunday. 

United States embassy officials spent one-and-a-half hours on Tuesday with
the six Americans heldand have applied for regular access. 

An embassy spokesman told the BBC the sixwere in good health and had not
complained about their treatment. 

Thai officials have also been allowed to visit the three Thais being held. 

Altogether, eighteen foreigners were detained after distributing
politically- sensitive leaflets to mark the tenth anniversary of the
suppression of pro-democracy demonstrations. 

The Americans say the Burmese authorities still haven't decided whether to
charge them. 


>From the newsroom of the BBC World Service