Situation of human rights in Myanmar, para. 36
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- 19. Notes with deep concern that charges for criminal defamation and other offences have increasingly been used to target journalists, politicians, students and social media users for their peaceful expression, online as well as offline, in particular under section 66 (d) of the Telecommunications Act, the Electronic Transactions Law and provisions of the Penal Code, including section 505 (b), and that the Official Secrets Act, Unlawful Associations Act and the Peaceful Assembly and Peaceful Procession Law continue to be abused to arbitrarily arrest and detain individuals for exercising their rights to freedom of religion or belief, freedom of expression, and peaceful assembly and association, including on the basis of their ethnicity or political beliefs, and calls for open and participatory legislative processes to repeal or reform those laws in line with the international human rights law obligations of the Government of Myanmar;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Vote
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2018
- Paragraph type
- OP
- Reference
- Situation of human rights in Myanmar, Human Rights Council Resolution, 2018.
- Paragraph number
- 36
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