Recent years have seen mass releases for Burma’s former political prisoners held during era of dictatorship

Ye Naing Win walked out of Myingyan prison in 2005, expecting to conduct his labour activism in secret for the rest of his life. Before his arrest in 1997, he was forced to operate under an alias, reporting human rights abuses in workplaces during Myanmar’s 50-year military dictatorship. “The military drove people from villages to rogue…