A member of Myanmar’s Civil Disobedience Motion (CDM), Thae Su Naing, has been sentenced to seven years in jail by Meiktila Court docket in Mandalay area. She obtained the utmost sentence allowed below the nation’s anti-terrorism legislation.
The 24-year-old instructor was a former chairwoman of the Meiktila College College students’ Union and taught within the native township.
Thae Su Naing was sentenced below Part 52 (A) of the Counter-Terrorism Regulation on Monday, relations and colleagues instructed RFA. Sentences below the legislation vary from three to seven years.
One member of the family, who declined to be named for safety causes, instructed RFA it was unfair to condemn a younger instructor to such a protracted jail time period,
“There isn’t a justice. My sister is an peculiar faculty instructor, not a Folks’s Protection Pressure (PDF) chief,” the member of the family mentioned. “This sentence is extreme for my sister. She has to enchantment however preparations haven’t but been made. I need my sister to return again dwelling as quickly as attainable.”
Thae Su Naing was arrested by the military at her dwelling in Maiktila township on November 22 final 12 months. She was accused of being a PDF chief and held for 9 months earlier than being sentenced.
Her household instructed RFA that her leg had been damaged throughout a beating she obtained from the junta troopers who arrested her. They mentioned her leg has not healed correctly as a result of she didn’t obtain efficient medical therapy in Meiktila Jail.
Thae Su Naing was energetic in preventing for college students’ rights throughout her college days. As a instructor, she participated within the anti-dictatorship CDM motion following the Feb.1, 2021 navy coup.
In response to the Help Affiliation for Political Prisoners (Burma), 12,171 folks have been arrested for the reason that navy coup of February 1, 2021 up till Monday. Some 1,410 of them have been sentenced to jail phrases throughout Myanmar.
Final month the AAPP mentioned 12 academics had been killed and greater than 200 arrested since Myanmar’s navy seized management from the elected authorities.
