Week 33: 2010 Election Watch (19-25 October)

Developments

• SPDC authorities in Rangoon arrested at least two Buddhist monks who were handing out pamphlets protesting the election near the Shwedagon pagoda.
• People put up anti-election leaflets and posters in Myitkyina, Kachin State, and in Kyainnseikyi Township, Karen State [...]

October 27, 2010 | Tags: Advance Voting, Altsean-Burma, Indonesia, Mon Affairs Union, Prime Minister Thein Sein, Resistance, Tomas Ojea Quintana, Union Solidarity and Development Party | Read more >>

UN Special Rapporteur calls for the immediate release of Aung San Suu Kyi

“I urge the Government of Myanmar to heed the call of an independent United Nations human rights body to immediately release Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention recently adopted its sixth ‘Opinion’ on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, which has been made public [...]

June 17, 2010 | Tags: 65th Birthday, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Tomas Ojea Quintana | Read more >>

UN envoy to Myanmar asked to table ‘human rights protection’ on Burma polls

As UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Tomas Ojea Quintana today starts his five-day visit in Burma, solidarity activists in the Philippines urged the UN envoy to prioritize on his agenda the “protection of human rights” of the peoples of Burma since the military regime is reportedly cracking down legitimate dissent ahead of polls this year.[...]

February 15, 2010 | Tags: Free Burma Coalition - Philippines, Tomas Ojea Quintana | Read more >>