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https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2001/07/nwe.jpg150240New York, July 18, 2001--CPJ welcomes the release today of San San Nwe, a journalist, novelist, and political activist who was jailed by the Burmese military government in August 1994 on charges of spreading information damaging to the state. She was released along with 10 other members of the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD),…