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A DOZEN UN RIGHTS EXPERTS JOINTLY URGE RELEASE OF DAW AUNG SAN SUU KYI (MaximsNews.com, U.N.) |
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- 09 May 2007 –
As the current detention term of Nobel Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
approaches, over a dozen United Nations human rights experts have joined their
voices to call
on the Myanmar authorities to free her and all other political prisoners.
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“We believe
this would give a significant sign of the Government's will to initiate a
genuine and effective transition towards democracy,” the experts said in a
statement released in Geneva.
Ms. Suu Kyi, the
General-Secretary of the National League for Democracy, has a current
detention term ending on 27 May, and has been held for 11 years without charge
or trial since her party and its allies won the 1990 election with over eighty
percent of the Parliamentary seats. She has been kept in isolation for the
past four years.
“As of one of
the world’s most acclaimed human rights defenders, the Nobel Peace Prize
Laureate is a major political and spiritual leader of Myanmar,” the experts
said. “Her tireless commitment to non-violence, truth and human rights has
made her a worthy symbol through whom the plight of all people in Myanmar may
be recognized.”
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They
called on the Government of Myanmar to release her unconditionally and to free
all the remaining political prisoners.
The
stability of Myanmar, they said, “is not well served by the arrest and
detention of several political leaders or by the severe and sustained
restrictions on the exercise of civil, cultural, economic, political and
social rights.”
The
statement was endorsed by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human
rights in Myanmar, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro; the Special Representative of the
Secretary-General on Human Rights Defenders, Hina Jilani; the Working Group on
Arbitrary Detention; the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of
the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Ambeyi Ligabo; the Special
Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Leandro Despouy; the
Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
or punishment, Manfred Nowak; the Special Rapporteur on violence against
women, its causes and consequences, Yakin Ertürk; the Special Rapporteur on
freedom of religion or belief, Asma Jahangir.
Also
signing on were the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and
fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, Rodolofo Stavenhagen; the Special
Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate
standard of living, Miloon Kothari; the Special Rapporteur on the right of
everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and
mental health, Paul Hunt; the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Jean
Ziegler; the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women
and children, Sigma Huda; and the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children,
child prostitution and child pornography, Juan Miguel Petit.
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