Burmese lawyer and poet Tin Aye Kyu released after 16 years [Burma]:
Tin Aye Kyu is a native of Inwa (Ava) Tada-U region near Mandalay in central Burma. He went to study at Rangoon Institute of Technology (RIT) and arrested for the first time in 1976 in connection with the centenary memorial of Burmese poet and nationalist Thakhin Kodaw Hmaing. When he was released from prison, Tin Aye Kyu took a distant education correspondence course and became a lawyer.
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