San San Nwe is a Burmese novelist, journalist, and political activist. She was sentenced in 1994 to 10 years’ imprisonment for “spreading information injurious to the state” and “giving one-sided views” to foreign reporters. The reason underlying her imprisonment was her active support for Aung San Suu Kyi, who at the time was being held under house arrest by the military government after winning a landslide victory in the 1990 elections. She was released in 2001, having served seven years of her sentence.