Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has received representations on the death penalties given to Myanmar activists, Ko Jimmy and Zeyar Thaw, on 21 January; and if she will make a statement.
The military has arrested over 12,000 people since the coup on 1 February 2021. The UK has repeatedly condemned the arbitrary detention and politically motivated sentencing of those who oppose the coup. We are also deeply concerned about credible reports of torture. The British Embassy in Yangon released a statement on 25 October 2021 condemning the military's actions following Ko Jimmy's arrest. The UK is monitoring the situation of all political prisoners in Myanmar, including Ko Jimmy and Zeyar Thaw, carefully. We have continued to call for their release, and the release of all those who are being held in arbitrary detention. On 8 December 2021 we secured a UN Security Council Resolution which called for the release of all those arbitrarily detained.