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...
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