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| Asia : EU-Asia summit should seek release of Myanmar dissidents: MEPs |
By: amanger  9 November 2008 view: 42
EU-Asia summit should seek release of Myanmar dissidents: MEPs
(STRASBOURG) - The European Parliament on Thursday called on Asian and European leaders meeting in Beijing this week to launch a joint appeal to the Myanmar junta for the release of all political prisoners there.
In a non-binding resolution, adopted unanimously by the 68 euro deputies still present at the end of a four-day sitting, the parliament denounced "the arbitrary charges behind the arrests of many dissidents and the harsh conditions of detention of political prisoners including widespread use of torture and hard labour."
The European MPs, meeting in Strasbourg, also deplored "the fact that the number of political prisoners has increased from 1,300 to 2,000 in the aftermath of the Saffron Revolution of September 2007."
The MEPs in particular condemned the continued detention of Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel peace laureate who has been for the most part under house arrest since her victory at the last democratic elections in 1990, calling for her immediate release.
The European Parliament urged the Asian and European leaders, meeting in an ASEM summit in Beijing Friday and Saturday, "to jointly appeal to the Myanmar military authorities to release all political prisoners."
Forty-three heads of state and government from the 27 EU nations, the 10 members of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and six other Asian countries, including economic heavy hitters China, India and Japan, will gather in the Chinese capital.
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