June 15 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Association of Assistance to Political Prisoners (AAPP) has accused this Thursday the military junta of Burma of sentencing 730 political prisoners to prison terms, some of them with life sentences, in just a period of six months.
Despite international condemnations and calls for the release of all political prisoners who have been imprisoned after the February 2021 coup, arrests of activists, students, politicians, protesters, opponents and journalists continue. in Burma.
Thus, the NGO has indicated in a statement that these people have been sentenced “without any legal basis” and has explained that among them there are 620 men, 108 women and two transgender people. The organization has indicated that fifteen of them have been sentenced to death so far this year, which places the number of people to whom this sentence has been imposed at 157.
Last May, five members of the Burmese resistance were accused of killing four police officers on a Rangoon train and were sentenced to death by a military court.
In total, of the 730 convicted, 54 have a life sentence, as indicated in the AAPP document, which estimates that since the coup d’état some 23,300 people have been arrested, of which more than 19,000 are still under arrest. custody.
In a resolution adopted in December, the United Nations Security Council urged the military junta to “release arbitrarily detained prisoners as soon as possible,” including the country’s former ‘de facto leader’ Aung San Suu Kii and former president win myint.
