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>From: "TIN KYI" <tinkyi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <burmanet2-l@xxxxxxxx>
>Subject: BBC-British woman reportedly arrested in Burma 
>Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 01:57:35 +0900
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>Tuesday, September 7, 1999 Published at 16:12 GMT 17:12 UK
>BBC World: Asia-Pacific
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>British woman reportedly arrested in Burma
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>Reports from Burma say the authorities there have detained a British woman,
>who was shouting pro-democracy slogans in a street protest in Rangoon.
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>One eyewitness said the woman tied her hands to a lamp-post at an
>intersection and shouted slogans for a short time before she was taken away
>by police.
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>The British foreign ministry says it's urgently investigating the reports.
>The Burmese authorities sentenced a British man, James Mawdsley, to
>seventeen years in prison last week after convicting him of repeatedly
>entered Burma carrying pro-democracy material and staging protests against
>the authorities.
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>>From the newsroom of the BBC World Service
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