(AGI) Rangoon – A dissident Buddhist monk faces charges in Burma for
‘occupying’ a monastery and breaking into two others. Among the leaders
of the Saffron Revolution from the monastery in Rangoon, Gambira has
been free for a little over a month after three years of imprisonment.
A court had sentenced him to 68 years in prison but a month ago the
President Thein Shein ordered the release of hundreds of prominent
political prisoners, including Gambira. Since then the monk has repeatedly
violated the terms of his conditional release, breaking into monasteries
closed by the authorities. . .
A Burmese monk jailed for his role in protests in 2007 and released in a
January amnesty, faces action by the authorities because he has “repeatedly
broken Buddhist monks’ code of conduct and the law”, state newspapers said.
