Burmese heroine Su Su Nway is in prison

A court in Kawmoo Township, Rangoon Division, has today sentenced Su Su Nway to one and a half year imprisonment, according to people who attended the court hearing.

Su Su Nway, a civil rights activist from Htan Manaing village has been defying the bullying actions by the local authorities and successfully sued them last year. Su Su Nway told DVB that the authorities will do everything to ruin her life when she sued them for subjecting the villagers to forced labour practice. Later on, the local authorities sued her with charges of disrupting authorities on duty.

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