“Burma: “Peaceful Assembly Law” Fails to End Repression”, 26 January 2015

The authorities in Burma should stop arresting peaceful protesters and immediately and unconditionally free those imprisoned. Burma’s donors should press for amendments to Burmese law so that it protects the rights to freedom of assembly, association, and expression…Among those arrested for “unauthorized” assemblies were: a land rights activist, was sentenced to one month in prison…[after] a protest by thousands of farmers about land takings…Naw Ohn Hla, Sein Htwe, Nay Myo Zin, and Ko Tin Htut Paing were arrested outside the Chinese embassy in Rangoon when they were peacefully protesting against the controversial Letpadaung copper mine in Monywa and the killing by police of an unarmed protester at the mine site…