Two CDM educational staff sentenced to ten-year imprisonment

May 31, 2024

HURFOM: On May 28th, 2024, the junta’s court sentenced a schoolteacher and a school clerk from Kan Buak Town, Yebyu Township, Tenasserim Division, who have been involved in the civil disobedience movement (CDM), to ten-years imprisonment each.

Four educational staff from Kan Buak were arrested by the junta in February, 2024 and on May 7, 2024, schoolteacher Daw Yin Yin Aye, from Maggin Ward and schoolteacher Daw Thet Thet Maw from Mi Kyaung Eye Ward were sentenced to four-year imprisonment each.

On May 28th, 2024, the Dawei District Court sentenced school clerk Ma K Jar Oo and schoolteacher Ma Ne Lar San to ten-year- imprisonment each, under the Anti-Terrorist Act Sections 50(J) and 505(A), according to a source close to the victims’ families.

Ten-year imprisonment each for breaching 50(J) and 505(A). All four of them were sentenced at the Dawei District Court. Their family members are in agony,” said a Kan Bauk resident.

According to a May-30 report by the Association for Assistance to Political Prisoners (AAPP), from February, 2021 to May 29, 2024, there have been 26,773 arbitrary arrests and 9,077 victims were sentenced to prison terms.

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