Tin Min Htut
Cases- Location of case in SG report
- 2010-039-001
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2010
- From Country
- 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: Thematic
- Dates of prior UN action
- 21 July 2009 (or after)
- Type of record
- Named individual
- Gender
- Male
- Was the victim a foreign national?
- No
- Was the victim a minor?
- No
- Type of rights defended
- Unclear in SG Report
- Was the victim a civil servant or member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- No
- Reported trigger of reprisal
following their mobilizing of 92 other members of parliament to sign a letter to the Secretary-General and the Security Council that criticized the Government of Myanmar and the United Nations itself and which was published on the Internet
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Secretary-General / ASG
- UN Security Council
- Dates of engagement
- Unclear
- Type of attempted engagement
- Submission of information to UN
- Dates of mentioned reprisals
- Unclear
- Reprisal information
sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment under laws criminalizing the upsetting of public tranquillity and peace
- Types of reprisals suffered
- Charge/Investigation/Prosecution: Conviction
- Detention/Imprisonment: Detention/Imprisonment - General
- 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?
- 1
- In which SG report was this case followed up on? 0
- 2011
- Follow up information provided in SG report 0
With regard to the cases of Tin Min Htut and U Nyi Pu included in my previous report,33 the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, at its fifty-seventh session, adopted Opinion No.4/2010 on these two individuals, finding their detention arbitrary under categories II and III of the categories applicable to the consideration of the cases submitted to the Working Group. The Working Group found their detention to be in contravention of articles 9, 10, 11 and 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment. The Working Group noted in its Opinion the roles of Mr. Htut and Mr. Pu as human rights defenders and that their detention and conviction were allegedly in relation to their acts of informing the United Nations about human rights violations. The Working Group also called on the Government to take the necessary steps to immediately release the individuals concerned and provide adequate reparations. The Opinion was adopted on 5 May 2010
- Followup Trends 0
- No substantive information provided by SG report
- Did the government respond? 0
- No
- Was this case followed up by a UN body? 0
- UN Special Procedures: Thematic