Chaw Sandi Tun,
also known as Chit Tha Mee, was released from Maubin prison in
Ayeyarwady Region on 30 March. She has served six months in prison for a
Facebook post mocking Myanmar Army Commander-in-Chief Senior General
Min Aung Hlaing. She was arrested in Yangon on 12 October 2015 and
sentenced on 28 December under Article 66(d) of Myanmar’s 2013
Telecommunications Act, which provides for up to three years’
imprisonment for “extorting, coercing, restraining wrongfully, defaming,
disturbing, causing undue influence or threatening any person by using
any Telecommunications Network”.
Chaw
Sandi Tun should have never been imprisoned in the first place. Amnesty
International is continuing to campaign for the release of all
prisoners of conscience in Myanmar.
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