Imprisonment Of Zarganar By Burmese Authorities

EDM number 1034 in 2010-12, proposed by Tom Harris on 17/11/2010.
Categorised under the topics of Asia and Politics and Government.

That this House condemns the treatment by the Burmese regime of the actor, director and comedian, Zarganar, who in 2006 was banned from any public performance and who in 2008, after speaking out on behalf of millions of Burmese citizens left homeless by a cyclone, was convicted of public order offences and sentenced to 59 years imprisonment, this sentence being reduced on appeal to 35 years; believes that Zarganar has suffered a grievous miscarriage of justice; and calls on the Burmese government to release him at the earliest possible opportunity.

This motion has been signed by a total of 63 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.