"Burma/Myanmar: Arbitrary detention and sentencing of Mr. Thein Aung Myint", 27 Apr 2015

The Observatory [for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders] has been informed by reliable sources of the arbitrary detention and sentencing of Mr. Thein Aung Myint, member of the Movement for Democracy Current Force (MDCF). MDCF is a community-based organisation that campaigns against land-grabbing and other human rights violations. Thein Aung Myint is a human rights defender who has been working to help communities to advocate for their rights, including land rights. He is also a former political prisoner...According to the information received...a court in Mandalay...sentenced Mr. Thein Aung Myint to six months in prison under Article 18 of the Act on the Right to Peaceful Assembly and Peaceful Procession for participating in a peaceful protest [i]n October...The protest called for an investigation into the...extrajudicial killing of journalist Aung Kyaw Naing, aka Par Gyi.