A passerby looks at a poster of Aung San Suu Kyi in a cage during a Tokyo protest on her 64th birthday to demand her release. Photo by Tishifumi Kitamura for the Agence France-Presse.
Here are today’s Burma-related headlines:
CNN is reporting that John Yettaw, the American whose swim to her home caused the currently military trial of Nobel Peace laureate and Prime Minister-elect Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, has been hospitalized after suffering convulsions. Yettaw is also standing trial for trespassing and violating immigration laws.
The Agence France-Presse reports that poverty in Burma has “sapped local interest in the Suu Kyi trial.”
The Guardian reports that Suu Kyi, “in a statement to the trial, a transcript of which has just been released by supporters…argued that no proper verdict could be reached without an assessment of the legality of the process under which she has been detained at her home for the past five years.”
The Irrawaddy reports that “a prominent Burmese labor rights activist, Su Su Nway, was placed in solitary confinement for three days after participating in a ceremony to mark the 62nd anniversary of Martyrs’ Day on June 19 in Kalay Prison, in Sagaing Division, according to her sister.”
Reuters reports that Ka Hsaw Wa, “an activist from Burma who was tortured by the military as a student and now runs an NGO probing infrastructure projects, is among this year’s winners of the Ramon Magsaysay Award.”
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A passerby looks at a poster of Aung San Suu Kyi in a cage during a Tokyo protest on her 64th birthday to demand her release. Photo by Tishifumi Kitamura for the Agence France-Presse.
