TAGS: Individuals at Risk, Urgent Action Network • Censorship and Free Speech, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Human Rights Defenders, Prisoners of Conscience • Asia and the Pacific, Myanmar •
Good News! – Myanmar: U Sein Than Released (UA 218/14)
August 6, 2015
Community leader U Sein Than, who had been sentenced to two years in prison in Myanmar for the peaceful exercise of his rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, has been released under a presidential amnesty.