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  • Burma: Don’t Prosecute Peaceful Speech

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    (Rangoon, January 25, 2017) – Burma’s government should act to end the prosecution of peaceful critics in violation of their right to free speech, Human Rights Watch said today. The National League for Democracy (NLD)-led government should seek to amend or repeal laws that criminalize nonviolent speech. Burma’s donors should press the government to end prosecutions for peaceful expression and to release all those detained in violation of their basic rights, Human Rights Watch said. “Though Burma’s new government includes more than 100 former political prisoners, it has done little to eliminate the laws used to prosecute peaceful expression,” said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “Instead, during the government’s first year there was an escalation in prosecutions of peaceful political speech.”
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