BURMA: AHRC condemns death sentence for torture victim
Press Release : (Hong Kong, May 10, 2012) The Asian Human Rights Commission has described the verdict of a court in Rangoon, sentencing a torture victim to death for his purported role in a bombing, as "farcical" and a "cut-and-paste" job, and has called for his release through the intervention of outside agencies. Read More...
BURMA: Court sentences ailing Phyo Wai Aung to death after patently unjust trial
Phyo Wai Aung
Urgent Appeal Update : We regret to inform you that a judge in a closed courtroom at the central prison in Burma on May 8 sentenced Phyo Wai Aung, the accused in a bombing case arising from April 2010 to death after a patently unjust trial. As the judge was evidently following orders from other parts of government, please join with us to call for interventions first to have the death sentence quashed and second to secure the release of the accused. Read More...
BURMA: A litany of abuses--the torture and trial of Phyo Wai Aung
Statement : On Tuesday, May 8, a judge in Rangoon will read the verdicts in four cases brought against a young engineer, Phyo Wai Aung, for alleged involvement in a bombing attack of 15 April 2010 that killed 10 people, seriously wounded 46 and injured 27 others. The trial started on 30 June 2010. Until the end of 2011, the court heard only prosecution witnesses, after which it allowed the defendant a few short days to give his side of the story before closing the hearings, the outcome of which it must now rule upon. Read More...
May 10, 2012 Urgent Appeal Update
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Mar 30, 2011 Statement
Feb 23, 2011 Urgent Appeal Update
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Aug 23, 2010 Urgent Appeal Case
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