The Prime Minister has expressed his disappointment on hearing that an appeal against Aung San Suu Kyi’s sentence has been denied.
Burma’s Supreme Court rejected an appeal to end the opposition leaders’ 14 years of house arrest, according to her lawyer.
Gordon Brown said the sole purpose of last year’s “show trial” has been to prevent Aung San Suu Kyi from taking part in elections later this year.
Read the PM’s statementI am appalled and saddened that Aung San Suu Kyi’s appeal against the sentence imposed by the regime has been denied.
That failed appeal is sadly no surprise.
From start to end, the sole purpose of this show trial has been to prevent Daw Suu Kyi from taking part in elections.
In my open letter to Aung San Suu Kyi in December, I said that this should be a historic year for Burma.
Free, fair and genuinely inclusive elections would allow the country to move forward, to map a new path.
But while she is kept out of political life and while over 2100 other prisoners of conscience remain incarcerated, the regime’s elections will not gain recognition nor international legitimacy.
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