Minister of Sports AYE Myint of Burma

Lawyer U Aye Myint was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2003 for his connections with the ILO and Federation of Trade Unions (Burma) in exile, and he has since been jailed many times.

Sun, Jun 1 03:14 PMSingapore, June 1 (DPA) Myanmar's Deputy Defence Minister Aye Myint said Sunday assistance and aid provided by any country or organisation would be welcomed provided there are 'no strings attached' or politicisation.

Speaking to the Democratic Voice of Burma after the announcement, Aye Myint said that he would continue to struggle for rights in Burma for his whole life.

Aye Myint is well-deserving of the award, but it should be seen as an award in acknowledgement of all lawyers in Burma who are fighting not only for the rights of their people but also to keep alive rational practices of law in what is otherwise a demented system, he said.

The Hong Kong-based regional rights group has issued urgent appeals and advocated strongly both on cases that Aye Myint has handled as well as on his own imprisonment and the unlawful removal of his licence.

He was charged with violating section 5 (e) of the catch-all Emergency Provisions Act Lawyer U Aye Myint was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment allegedly for helping farmers report to the authorities and the ILO that local officials had confiscated their land.

Aye Myint was responding to reports on Wednesday that Burmas military junta was continuing to detain pro-democracy activists even as it hosted a UN human rights investigator and insisted that all arrests had stopped.

Aye Myint said 49 people in Yangon and 42 others elsewhere were "under investigation.

Aye Myint said Burmas military leaders welcomed assistance from international organizations such as the UN and Asean but that his country would protect its national sovereignty.

Singapore Defense Minister Teo Chee Hean said Aye Myint had briefed his regional counterparts on the situation in Burma, and that they had urged Burma to give UN envoy Pinheiro the access he needs.

U Aye Myint was released in January 2005.

Lawyer U Aye Myint was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment allegedly for helping farmers report to the authorities and the ILO that local officials had confiscated their land.

Aye Myint has said that he will continue to take up rights-related cases, but it is unclear at this stage whether his licence to practice law will be returned to him or not.

Before being released Aye Myint was required to sign a document that if he commits any further offence in the remaining period of his sentence (six years and one month) then he will be returned to prison and required to serve out the full term.

U Aye Myint said the workers responded by occupying the former construction site in protest.

U Aye Myint is now finding witnesses and preparing evidence from the jailed villagers’ family members in order to help the villagers bring a forced labour complaint to the International Labour Organisation and report the matter to senior general Than Shwe.

about the secret to success in business.

Myo Min, who lives nearby, was taken on August 6 and Ko Thant Zaw Myint was taken on August 7.

Upon release, Khin Aye Myint fled to a refugee camp on the Thai border.

Khin Aye Myint is learning English at Anthis Career Center while applying for factory jobs.

Singapore_(dpa) _ Myanmar's Deputy Defence Minister Aye Myint said Sunday that assistance and aid provided with genuine goodwill from any country or organization would be welcomed providing there 'are no strings attached' or politicization.

Aye Myint said 77,738 people were confirmed dead; 55,917 were still missing and 19,359 were injured.

Myanmar's Deputy Defence Minister Aye Myint said Sunday assistance and aid provided by any country or organisation would be welcomed provided there are 'no strings attached' or politicisation.

In contrast to criticism from many of the 27 defence ministers and officials at a forum in Singapore over Myanmar's three-week holdup of their donations and slow pace of getting supplies to the survivors of the May 3 cyclone, Aye Myint said assistance is being provided.

Aye Myint said 77,738 people were confirmed dead; 55,917 were still missing and 19,359 were injured in Cyclone Nargis.