The Arch‘Please use your liberty to promote ours’ says Aung San Suu Kyi. Upload your photo to the collection which Amnesty will take to Brussels for the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) on October 4th-5th, demanding freedom for political prisoners and real human rights improvements across Burma.
There are now more than 2,200 political prisoners in Burma, more than at any other time since the mass pro-democracy uprising in 1988. Among the people imprisoned are those arrested for one small act of defiance and for protesting peacefully.
As the first elections in Burma in 20 years approach you can act today to stand in solidarity with Burma’s political prisoners and in defiance of Burma’s oppressive military regime.
In Burma the open palm is a gesture of fearlessness, so write the name of a Burmese political prisoner on your hand, take a photo and upload it to the collection.
You will be joining the brave individuals who, having been imprisoned for peaceful political action themselves, have already risked their freedom to stand in solidarity with those who remain in prison. These activists used this small act of defiance to show that they cannot be free while 2,200 others continue to be punished for legitimate protest.
Amnesty’s action this year on Burma was inspired by the work of James Mackay, a London-based freelance documentary photographer who has photographed more than 160 former Burmese political prisoners now located all around the world – some still in Burma.
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