UN expert to Myanmar: release political prisoners
AP - Tuesday, March 17
GENEVA - A U.N. human rights expert is urging Myanmar to release all of its political prisoners before the country holds its first elections in two decades next year.
Tomas Ojea Quintana says the Southeast Asian country is holding some 2,100 people as "prisoners of conscience" in breach of basic human rights.
He says in a report for the U.N. Human Rights Council that the military-run government should release the detainees starting with the elderly, the sick and political leaders.
Among those being held is Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been detained 13 of the past 19 years without trial. Her pro-democracy movement won Myanmar's 1990 democratic elections.
Quintana's report will be discussed by the Geneva-based council on Monday.
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