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Suu Kyi refuses freedom until colleagues freed: UN Envoy
Yangon, Nov 08: Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi isn`t being held under any security law but will not accept freedom until all those arrested with her five months ago are released, a UN human rights envoy said today.
Yangon, Nov 08: Pro-democracy leader Aung San
Suu Kyi isn't being held under any security law but will not
accept freedom until all those arrested with her five months
ago are released, a UN human rights envoy said today.
“She wants to be the last person to have access to
freedom of movement,'' the envoy, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, told
reporters.
Pinheiro met with Suu Kyi at her lakeside home Thursday during his weeklong mission to investigate human rights in the military-ruled country.
The Nobel Peace laureate has been under detention since a bloody clash in northern Myanmar on May 30 between her supporters and a pro-junta mob. She was first held at an undisclosed location and then at her Yangon residence.
Pinheiro said 35 people remain in jail in connection with the may 30 incident and 101 have been freed. In addition there are eight central executive members of the NLD in house arrest, he said.
The UN envoy said Suu Kyi told him that “she will not accept any privilege or freedom of movement before all the people detained since may 30 including her eight colleagues (are) released.''
The government said at the time of the clash that Suu Kyi was being detained under emergency security law. But Pinheiro said he was told by authorities this week that she is “not held under any security law.'' the government has not said this publicly.
Bureau Report
Pinheiro met with Suu Kyi at her lakeside home Thursday during his weeklong mission to investigate human rights in the military-ruled country.
The Nobel Peace laureate has been under detention since a bloody clash in northern Myanmar on May 30 between her supporters and a pro-junta mob. She was first held at an undisclosed location and then at her Yangon residence.
Pinheiro said 35 people remain in jail in connection with the may 30 incident and 101 have been freed. In addition there are eight central executive members of the NLD in house arrest, he said.
The UN envoy said Suu Kyi told him that “she will not accept any privilege or freedom of movement before all the people detained since may 30 including her eight colleagues (are) released.''
The government said at the time of the clash that Suu Kyi was being detained under emergency security law. But Pinheiro said he was told by authorities this week that she is “not held under any security law.'' the government has not said this publicly.
Bureau Report