The Amnesty International Club at Vashon High School in Vashon Island, Washington held a telephone conference with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on December 10, 2010. Aung San Suu Kyi was released on November 13, 2010 after spending more than 15 of the past 21 years under house arrest and is now [...]
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Aung San Suu Kyi interviewed by students in Washington
Posted in Myanmar, tagged Aung San Suu Kyi on January 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Aung San Suu Kyi released from house arrest
Posted in Myanmar, tagged Aung San Suu Kyi on November 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE 13 November 2010 Myanmar should free all prisoners of conscience following Aung San Suu Kyi’s release Amnesty International today welcomes the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, but calls on the government of Myanmar to immediately release all of the prisoners of conscience in the country. Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s [...]
Call on ASEAN to reign in Myanmar before the November election
Posted in Myanmar, tagged online action on October 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The last time an election took place in Myanmar (also known as Burma), the results were ignored and the winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, was locked up. Twenty years later – on November 7 – the country will hold another much-anticipated and highly controversial election. However Aung San Suu Kyi, whose party won the elections [...]
Denounce Aung San Suu Kyi’s imprisonment
Posted in Myanmar, tagged Aung San Suu Kyi, online action on August 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Myanmar’s military junta extended Nobel Peace laureate and pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s imprisonment by 18 months today after finding her guilty of violating the terms of her house arrest. Critics of Myanmar’s military regime condemned the outcome of the 3-month sham trial, calling it a pretext to keep Aung San Suu Kyi [...]
Call for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi
Posted in Myanmar, tagged Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, online action on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Aung San Suu Kyi faced her oppressors last week on charges that could land her in jail for five years. The trial came just days before she was set to be released from house arrest. Her life is on the line. Her health is at risk, and five years of torture and abuse at the infamous Insein [...]
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