Preemptive statement made to ensure no reprisals will occur

Cases
Location of case in SG report
2017-058-002
Relevant SG report
Year of the report
2017
Country Geolocation

Latitude: 21.916221

Longitude: 95.955974

Country Geolocation (linked Cases)
Myanmar (Burma)
From Region
UN body that raised the case prior to the SG report
  • UN Special Procedures: Country
  • UN Human Rights Council: UN Human Rights Council - General
Dates of prior UN action
24 January 2017; 21 June 2016; April 2017
Type of record
Preemptive statement made to ensure no reprisals will occur
Was the victim a foreign national?
No
Was the victim a minor?
No
Was the victim a civil servant or member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
No
Reported trigger of reprisal

reported reprisals against some of those with whom she met. She drew attention to her alarm that security forces, after a brief lull in activity, had resumed military counter operations in villages nearby to those she had visited in June 2016, with allegations of arbitrary detention and arrest in relation to these raids.

Engagement with UN body
  • UN Special Procedures: country
  • UN Human Rights Council: UN Independent Investigation
  • Unclear
Type of attempted engagement
  • Meeting with UN officials during country visit / with locally present UN officials
  • Unclear
Alleged/likely perpetrators
State actors
Was the reprisal based on new legislation?
No
Does the report make general comment about country’s environment for engagement with UN?
No
Is the country cited for a "pattern of reprisal" in the context of this case?
No
Is a pattern of reprisals mentioned otherwise in the context of this case?
No
Does the report cite "self-censorship" as an issue in the context of this case?
No
How many times has the case been followed up in subsequent SG reports?
0