Criminal Justice in Burma: detention without charges, torture, secret trials

From David Wallechinsky’s Tyrants: The World’s 20 Worst Living Dictators:

Prisoners in Burma can be held without trial for 3 years. Torture is the state’s most common resource for evidence gathering. Political activists are beaten and tortured as soon as they arrive in jail.

“Most political trials take place behind closed doors and the defendants are not allowed legal counsel, nor are they allowed to call witnesses.”imagesp6c1w2pl