{"id":11,"date":"2009-08-15T14:18:55","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T05:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hrn.or.jp\/?p=11"},"modified":"2023-10-25T09:45:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T00:45:45","slug":"aung-san-suu-kyi-sentence-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/news\/2009\/08\/15\/aung-san-suu-kyi-sentence-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Now protests the unjust sentence for Aung San Suu Kyi"},"content":{"rendered":"

15 August 2009<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

Human
\nRights Now protests the unjust sentence for Aung San Suu Kyi, and call
\nfor the immediate and unconditional release of her and other political
\nprisoners and the initiation of a dialogue with them.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

On August 11th, the Myanmar’s military government sentenced Myanmar’s democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, to a three-year prison term.
\nHowever, shortly after that, the government ordered her to serve out a further 18 months sentence under house arrest.<\/p>\n

Human Rights Now, an international human rights NGO based in Tokyo, strongly protests against the injustice of the sentence. Human Rights Now also demands that Myanmar’s
\nmilitary government release Suu Kyi and all other political prisoners
\nimmediately and unconditionally, and start the political process
\nthrough a dialogue with pro-democracy forces and minority peoples.<\/p>\n

Suu
\nKyi has been found guilty of breaking the terms of her house arrest for
\nallowing an uninvited American man to stay at her house in early May.
\nHer house arrest represents an illegal suppression of democracy and
\narbitrary detention without any true grounds. The international
\ncommunity as a whole has called for her immediate release (United
\nNations General Assembly Resolution of January 23rd, 2009). Instead of
\nresponding to the call, and even though Suu Kyi completed her initial
\nterm of house arrest on May 27th, 2008, Myanmar’s
\nmilitary government declared that they would extend her house arrest
\nfor another year without warrant. The prosecution and conviction of Suu
\nKyi for violating the terms of her house arrest have no legitimate
\nbasis.
\nMyanmar’s
\nmilitary government must hold a general election in 2010. However, if
\nSuu Kyi is subjected to criminal prosecution and her house arrest is
\ncontinued for a year and half, she will be unable to take part in the
\nelection (The Constitution which the junta forced through in 2008
\ndoesn’t allow a person with a criminal record to run for election). It
\nbecame clear that the general election that Myanmar’s military government
\nhas scheduled must exclude Suu Kyi and will therby not be worthy of
\nbeing called democracy.<\/p>\n

Countries throughout the world have
\nissued statements condemning the sentence. In a statement on August
\n12th, Ban Ki Moon, the UN Secretary-General, urged Myanmar’s
\ngovernment to “immediately and unconditionally” release Suu Kyi. Ban
\nalso reminded the military government that, “Unless Aung San Suu Kyi
\nand other political prisoners are released and allowed to participate
\nin free and fair elections, the credibility of the political process
\nwill remain in doubt.”<\/p>\n

It is now time for Myanmar’s military government to take condemnation from the international community seriously.
\nOn August 13th, Myanmar’s pro-democracy forces and ethnic minority groups, which met in Jakarta, Indonesia,
\nannounced a “Proposal for National Reconciliation” and presented a
\nconcurrent proposal toward democracy. They called for the military
\njunta to initiate the start of a democratization process.
\nNow is
\nthe time for the international community to make maximum diplomatic
\nefforts to work on the military junta to further negotiations with
\npro-democracy forces and ethnic minority groups, and to realize their
\noffers to negotiate toward democratization.
\nThe general election in 2010, which Myanmar’s
\nmilitary government is moving to force through, is approaching.
\nMaterial violation of International Human Rights Law and humanitarian
\nlaw in Myanmar
\nis getting more and more serious. The international community,
\nincluding the Japanese government, needs to take concerted action,
\nrather than merely engaging in verbal criticism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

15 August 2009 Human Rights Now protests the unjust sentence for Aung San Suu Kyi, and call for the immediate and unconditional release of her and other political prisoners and the initiation of a dialogue with them. On August 11th, the Myanmar’s military government sentenced Myanmar’s democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, to a three-year prison term. However, shortly after that, the government ordered her to serve out a further 18 months sentence under house arrest. Human Rights Now, an international human rights NGO based in Tokyo, strongly protests against the injustice of the sentence. Human Rights Now also demands that Myanmar’s military government release […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[104,154,102,17],"countries":[245],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-statement","tag-criminal-justice-arbitrary-detention-and-torture","tag-defenders-democratic-space","tag-human-rights-defenders-independence-of-judiciary","tag-human-rights-violation-under-armed-conflictsmilitary-operation","countries-myanmar"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1111,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/1111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"countries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/countries?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}