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Parliamentarians reportedly still serving their sentences:...Parliamentarians who died in custody or soon after their release:...Parliamentarians who were assassinated:.....
Resolution adopted unanimously by the IPU Governing Council at its 188th session
(Panama, 20 April 2011)...
The Governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union,
Referring to the case of the above-mentioned former members-elect of the Pyithu Hluttaw (People?s Assembly) of the Union of Myanmar, as outlined in the report of the Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians (CL/188/13(b)-R.1), and to the resolution adopted at its 187th session (October 2010),
Recalling that 12 former members-elect continue to suffer imprisonment on account of having merely exercised their freedom of expression and were sentenced on the basis of legal proceedings which blatantly disregarded their right to a fair trial; that their case has to be situated in a context in which it has expressed the following long-standing concerns: ..."
Source/publisher:
Inter-Parliamentary Union
Date of Publication:
2011-02-00
Date of entry:
2012-03-27
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- Individual Documents
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Language:
English