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Exhibition “Portrait of Detention: Drawings of Insein Prison by Maung Phoe”

19 May, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 31 May, 2023 @ 7:00 pm

Insein Prison is infamously known as Myanmar’s primary jail. Built by British colonialists in 1887 with a circular panopticon design to closely control detainees, it has a decade-long history of being used for repression of political dissidents by the military especially during the 1988-2011 period. Since the 2021 coup, Insein Prison has again received thousands of political prisoners,…

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