Myanmar: Further information on fear of torture/prisoners of conscience

Index Number: ASA 16/018/2000
Date Published: 5 September 2000
Categories: Asia And The Pacific, Myanmar

Two leaders of the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) have reportedly been imprisoned, together with 16 members of the party's Youth wing, after they tried to attend a party meeting. Political prisoners are routinely tortured in Myanmar. Amnesty International would consider them prisoners of conscience, arrested solely for exercising their right to freedom of association and membership of a non-violent political party.