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Burmese doctor jailed for 17 years for allegedly inciting violence

Dr. Tun Aung was arrested on June 11, in Rakhine state, western Myanmar and has been held in detention without any communication to his family or lawyer since being arrested. He is a practicing medical doctor and the chairman of the Islamic Religious Affairs Council in Maungdaw. Dr. Tun Aung is accused of inciting communal violence after riots broke out in Maungdaw, Rakhine state, which he had been asked to try to defuse by local authorities due to his position of respect in the community. We believe the criminal charges waged against Dr. Aung are unfounded, and regard him as a prisoner of conscience.

After rising tempers due to the heightened ethnic tensions in the region, having been summoned by the police, Dr. Aung actively tried to calm an agitated crowd – only to be arrested later that week by the same people he had agreed to help, and charged with inciting violence.

Initially, when Dr. Aung was taken, his family had no idea of his whereabouts. After a few weeks they learned that he had been taken to a prison 170km from his home. He has remained there since, virtually isolated, with very little communication with a lawyer or his family.

Dr. Aung wasn’t allowed to choose his own lawyers, which diminishes his chances of a fair trial, and the prosecution won an appeal to extend his sentence from 11 to 17 years on the basis that the shorter sentence was ‘too lenient’.

We believe that Dr. Aung has been detained because the authorities were looking for individuals to blame, and was targeted for exactly the same reason he had been asked to help: his position as a Muslim community leader.

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Immediate and unconditional release of doctor Aung Tun
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Petice for release of Burmese doctor Tun Aung

Thein Sein
Nay Pyi Taw
Myanmar
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Petice for release of Burmese doctor Tun Aung

Thein Sein
Nay Pyi Taw
Myanmar

Your Excellency,

Allow me to turn to you on behalf of Amnesty International Czech Republic and bring to your attention to the case of Burmese medical doctor Tun Aung, who was arrested in June 2012 and then held in isolation for a number of months before being sentenced to 17 years in prison.

Amnesty International considers Tun Aung to be a prisoner of conscience and strongly believes that he was imprisoned solely because of his position and reputation as a respected leader in the local Muslim community.

In the light of the above described, I respectfully urge you, Your Excellency, to ensure that Doctor Tung Aung be immediately and unconditionally released.

In the spirit of respect for the basic values of human dignity, freedom, equality and solidarity, I call on you, Your Exellency, to respect human rights not only in the case of Doctor Tung Aung mentioned in this letter, but also all those who are unjustly imprisoned or persecuted in Burma.
Thank you for your attention to this important issue.

Yours sincerely

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