Senior General Than Shwe
Chairman – State Peace and Development Council
Ministry of Defense
Ahlanpya Phaya Street
Yangon
Union of Myanmar

Re: Ye Htut

Dear General:

The undersigned respectfully request that Ye Htut be released immediately. At last report he was being held in Thayet prison in the Pha-Sa-Pa-La Region. Ye Htut was arrested in 1995 and sentenced to seven years which means that his prison term expired in 2002. However, he remains in custody in Thayet. He was arrested for corresponding with a person who worked for an opposition journal outside Myanmar. Since he was exercising his right to free speech as guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to which Myanmar is a signatory nation, we consider him to be a prisoner of conscience who should be released immediately and unconditionally.

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