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On March 10, after the protesters in Letpadan were allowed to go to Yangon, police and some groups of vigilante surrounded the peaceful and unarmed protesters and then brutally attacked them. Until now, the detained protesters have not been released. The endless and painful struggle of Myanmar students for education reform has resulted to violence and brutality of the police in Yangon and Letpadan
20/08/2016
Right Now, we need to stand with Thai students!
The hunger striking activist’s mom has kneed in front of a prison insisting on seeing her son after the activist was again detained due to another charge.
On Friday, 19 August 2016, Jatuphat Boonpattaraksa, aka Phai, an anti-junta activist from the pro-democracy Dao Din group, was arrested at the provincial court of Phu Khiao District for participating in an anti-junta campaign on 22 May 2015. This is immediately after he was granted bail from another case related to anti-junta campaign in northeastern Chaiyaphum Province.
The activist has been detained for 13 days since the police arrested him on 6 August when he handed out anti-draft charter flyers at a market in Phu Khiao. Shortly after the arrest, he started a hunger strike because he asserted that his activity is lawful. The police indicted him under Article 61(2) of the the controversial Referendum Act for allegedly distributing materials that distorted the draft’s content.
On Thursday, the Chaiyaphum Provincial Court granted bail to Jatuphat after his lawyer submitted 30,000 bahts together with a lawyer license of Jatuphat's father as bail. However, as Jatuphat also faces three more accusations from participating in anti-junta campaigns in Khon Kaen and Bangkok, the Khon Kaen police took him in custody immediately.
Around 5.30 pm, while authorities tried to transfer him from the prison of Phu Khiao District to the northeastern province of Khon Kaen, where the complaint was filed, Jatuphat’s mother and sister kneed in front of the prison obstructing the transfer. The activist’s mother pleaded to the police to see her son in order to have him signed a document necessary for enrolling courses at Khon Kaen University, where Phai is a student at Law Faculty. Thursday is the last day for enrollment, added the mother.
“I asked [the police] politely but they refused. Isn’t it too much? Where is the justice? You told me to bail my son but when I do it, you detained my son again… It’s ok. If they don’t give me a proper answer, I will keep kneeing like this,” Jatuphat’s mother strongly stated.
Hunger striking activist immediately jailed again after set free | Prachatai English
Dear all friends,
Great News!
All 69 students who were in prison for over 1 year with court process in Myanmar were released yesterday. We want to thank to all of you by showing your loving kindness and by standing in solidarity with Myanmar students while they were violated brutally and put in prison. You all have done amazing support. Your actions really could raise the voices for students to be louder. Students also thank to all of your warm support and morally support coming as action.
Thanks admin team and people who tried to coordinate by collecting campaign photos! Everyone did the best with volunteer spirit!
Thank You very much All!
Best regards,
We support Myanmar Students - Team
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