Burmese Arakan MP and family given lengthy prison terms

July 29, 2005 (DVB) -

The elected representative (MP) of Arakan State Buthidaung Township and Committee for Representing People’s Parliament (CRPP) Kyaw Min and his family members were given lengthy prison terms by a Burmese court on 29 July.

The arrest of Kyaw Min on 17 March was followed by those of his wife and children who have all been detained in the notorious Insein Jail in Rangoon. They were tried by a court situated within the prison, and Kyaw Min was given a 47 year prison term and his wife and three children were each given a 17 year term.

Another member of CRPP, Htaung Co Thang told DVB that all the charges against Kyaw Min are not known but he was sure that his colleague was charged with Emergency Provision Act 5J and acts relating to nationality laws.

Thang added although it is not strange to arrest and detain Kyaw Min with political acts, he finds it hard to understand why the authorities of Burma’s military junta, State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) arrested Kyaw Min’s family members who were not interested in politics.

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