ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံအေျခစိုက္ အတိုက္အခံအဖြဲ႔တခ်ိဳ႕က ျမန္မာသံ႐ံုးသို႔ သြားေရာက္၍ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား လႊတ္ေပးမႈအတြက္ ေက်းဇူးတင္ေၾကာင္း သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္ထံအိတ္ဖြင့္ေပးစာ သြားေရာက္ေပးပို႔ၾက ။
ဒီသတင္းေခါင္းစဥ္ေလးကိုလဲၾကည့္လိုက္ပါဦးဗ်ာ............ထူးမေနဘူးလား...
Human rights group urges Vietnam to follow Myanmar's example.
Hanoi - A human rights group on Tuesday urged Vietnam to follow Myanmar's example and release its political prisoners.
Myanmar on Friday released 302 political prisoners, including several prominent activists and ethnic leaders.
'Vietnam should follow Burma's example by immediately releasing its
political prisoners, starting with those that Hanoi has imprisoned
under so-called 'national security' articles of the penal code that
penalize basic human rights,' said Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director
of Human Rights Watch.
Myanmar's move was part of a series of
reforms, including allowing the main opposition party to register for
upcoming by-elections and signing ceasefires with ethnic minority
rebels to persuade Western nations to lift sanctions.
In a
visit last year, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said he
supported the road map towards democratization and urged Myanmar to
make greater efforts to hold free elections in 2010.
'It's
frankly astonishing that at the same time Vietnam's prime minister was
expressing support for free elections and the so-called road map to
democracy in Burma, his government has intensified its crackdown on
rights activists and dissidents,' Robertson said
Vietnam
released dissident Pham Minh Hoang Friday after 17 months in jail. He
was sentenced to three years for 'attempting to overthrow the
government,' but an appeals court reduced it in November, citing his
cooperation with police and his commitment to renounce the banned
pro-democracy group Viet Tan.
