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| Amnesty International Welcomes Suu Kyi Release but Urges Myanmar to Release Other Prisoners of Conscience |
| Sunday, November 14, 2010 |
In 1990, the NLD won 80 percent of the parliamentary seats in a general election. Surprised at the landslide victory, the military junta refused to transfer power to Daw Suu Kyi and the NLD and jailed scores of political activists.
Currently 2,200 political prisoners are still in prison, most of them for exercising their right to freedom of expression, assembly and association.
In the United States, Amnesty International USA members and other activists' efforts to free Daw Suu Kyi included more than 67,000 pleas to U.S. and global leaders urging them to push Myanmar authorities, more than 11,000 petition signatures and thousands of letters urging the Myanmar authorities to release her and approximately 2,200 other political prisoners currently detained.
Hundreds of activists have rallied in front of the United Nations headquarters and Myanmar Permanent Mission in New York calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Daw Suu Kyi and all prisoners of conscience in Myanmar. More than 1600 activists have participated in the Stand with Suu Kyi photo action to support human rights in Myanmar.
"I worked on behalf of Suu Kyi for nearly 20 years, and this news is more than welcomed," said Jim Roberts, Amnesty International USA Myanmar country specialist. "Now that she has been released, Amnesty International calls on the Myanmar government to allow her to freely exercise her right to the freedoms of expression and association."
Amnesty International is a Nobel Peace Prize-winning grassroots activist organization with more than 2.8 million supporters, activists and volunteers in more than 150 countries campaigning for human rights worldwide. The organization investigates and exposes abuses, educates and mobilizes the public, and works to protect people wherever justice, freedom, truth and dignity are denied.
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"who put family second to country, who for her convictions made an unbearable choice—not to see her sons grow and not to be with her husband as he lost his life to a long and painful cancer. Suu Kyi, with an idea too big for any jail and a spirit too strong for any army, changes our view — as only real heroes can — of what we believe to be possible."BONO
