Arbitrary Taxation & Extortion: • Farmers fined after being forced to stop shifting cultivation • General Admin Officer exploits villagers • Matupi medical doctor demands money for free birth certificate... Freedom of Religion: • Yesagyo Court clears Chin pastor of charge • Christian family evicted from village, banned from group worship • Female Christian pastor sues Buddhist monk for physical assault • Construction of ?banned? Christian building resumed • Authorities behind Sami pagoda construction • Burma urged to scrap religious conversion law • Chin political party adds voice to growing calls to scrap controversial law on religion... Other Human Rights Violations: • Three Chin girls raped in Paletwa Tsp • Land confiscated for Kaladan Project in Paletwa • Chin woman seriously injured during attempted rape by Burma Army soldier • Women and youth leaders in Matupi Township charged over demonstration • Medical doctor accused of dumping baby after birth Humanitarian & Development Situation Page 13 • Fire victims in urgent need of relief assistance... Event & Protest: • Protests calling for end to raping ethnic women • Salai Tin Maung Oo?s 38th death anniversary commemorated... Situation of Refugees: • Chin refugee women abused in their workplace • Ten-year-old Chin refugee boy slashed in New Delhi • Over 100 Chin refugees protest on World Refugee Day in Delhi • Sexual violence against Chin women in Delhi raised in UK Parliament... Press Releases: • Statement of the 3rd Meeting of Chin Journalist Network • Four years on, no clear answers on Kaladan Project • Religious conversion law threatens religious freedom in Burma/Myanmar