ဖော်ပြချက်/အကြောင်းအရာ:
"1. At the twentieth session of the Human Rights Council, the Asian Legal Resource
Centre (ALRC) drew the attention of delegates—not for the first time—to the case of Phyo
Wai Aung, a young man falsely convicted of involvement in a bombing attack during 2010
that killed 10 people and injured scores. The ALRC made a special appeal for the release of
Phyo Wai Aung on grounds of ill health to which the Centre and other human rights
defenders had been pointing for the last couple of years. For want of medical treatment and
due to torture and other forms of systemic abuse while in custody, cancer was spreading
throughout the young man?s body. The Government of Myanmar had hitherto ignored these
requests. With the concerted effort of concerned persons and groups at home and abroad,
including the joint intervention of the Special Rapporteurs on human rights in Myanmar, on
the independence of judges and lawyers, and on the right to health, the President of
Myanmar on 3 August 2012 issued a clemency order releasing Phyo Wai Aung from
custody. The young man was reunited with his family; however, he spent most of his last
days in hospital, where the treatment for his condition came too little, too late. When
directors of the ALRC visited him in December, he was paralysed from the waist down,
since the cancer had spread to his spinal cord. Although he was still optimistic for the
future, he passed away on 4 January 2013...".....Written NGO statement to the 22th Session of UN Human Rights Council.
ရင်းမြစ်:
Asian Legal Resource Centre via UN Human Rights Council (A/HRC/22/NGO/43)
Date of Publication:
2013-02-13
Date of entry:
2015-09-19
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