Relatives of former Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi filed a complaint against the military junta to a UN working group on Wednesday, alleging a “judicial kidnapping” since the February 2021 coup.
“At the initiative of Aung Sang Suu Kyi’s son and his family, human rights lawyers François Zimeray and Jessica Finelle submitted a statement today to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention against the Burmese military junta,” the statement said.
The lawyers recall that the ex-leader was “permanently and unlawfully deprived of his liberty by the military junta in an unknown location since February 1, 2021”.
In the complaint reached by AFP, it was stated that “his arrest was unlawful in all respects, had no legal basis and violated the most fundamental rules of the junta courts’ right to a fair trial”.
Suu Kyi, 76, was sentenced to another five years in prison in late April, in a process accused by the international community of being political under anti-corruption law.
He was sentenced to six years in prison for inciting the military, violating rules against covid-19, and violating telecommunications law.
Suu Kyi, winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, has been imprisoned since the February 1, 2021 military coup that ended a decade of democratic transition in Myanmar.
He is accused of various crimes (violation of a law on state secrets dating back to colonial times, electoral fraud, sedition, corruption and others) and faces decades in prison.
“He is being tried on very shocking pretexts and is being held without contact with anyone. We are on the verge of being forcibly disappeared. We don’t know where he is. It only comes up from time to time during trials. It’s a forensic kidnapping,” he accused. lawyer Zimeray.
source: Noticias
