Aung San Suu Kyi Trial - Closing Arguments
by JONATHAN HARRIS, Managing Editor
Two months after being charged with breaking the terms of her house arrest, Burmese political prisoner and Causecast leader Aung San Suu Kyi‘s trial is nearing an end. The defense began presenting their closing arguments on Friday. According to diplomats present for the trial, Suu Kyi’s defense attorneys argued against the very legal basis of the case. The very laws used to justify her confinement, they say, are contradictory.
The military junta of Myanmar is essentially arguing that Suu Kyi should be imprisoned for a further five years for sheltering a mentally disturbed man who was exhausted and disoriented. In her position, it’s doubtful that she had much of a choice.
Of course, arguing the merits of the case one way or the other is a fruitless enterprise. This trial has been roundly rejected by the international community as illegitimate and biased. Arguing the legal merits of one case over the other is purely a formality.
In all likelihood, the court will find Suu Kyi guilty, and the military junta will continue to shun the international community in its repeated calls to release her and other political prisoners from the National League of Democracy.
Please do the following to a) keep this story in the news and b) encourage the international community to put continued pressure on the Burmese military government. Act for Aung San Suu Kyi.
•Go to Causecast’s FREEDOM TO LEAD page to download Shepard Fairey’s iconic image of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
•Write to President Obama asking him to print the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on all U.S. passports.
•Send Shepard Fairey’s iconic image of Aung San Suu Kyi to everyone you know.
•Ask UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to increase pressure on Burma
•Donate to the Human Rights Action Center.
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