U Aye Myint (BURMA)

Ludovic-Trarieux International Human Rights Prize 2008



In a meeting on May 17th 2008 in Luxemburg, the Jury of 21 european lawyers awarded the 13th International Human Rights Prize "Ludovic Trarieux" 2008 ("The award given by lawyers to a lawyer") to burmese labour lawyer (Myanmar)
U Aye Myint
The award will be presented to Prize winner in next October 2008 in Roma (Italia).
Created in 1984, the "International Human Rights Prize Ludovic Trarieux” is awarded to " a lawyer, regardless of nationality or Bar, who thoroughout his career has illustrated, by his activity or his suffering, the defence of human rights, the promotion of defence rights, the supremacy of law, and the struggle against racism and intolerance in any form ".


It is the oldest and most prestigious award given to a lawyer in the world, commemorating the memory of the French lawyer, Ludovic Trarieux (1840-1904), who in the midst of the Dreyfus Affair, in France, in 1898, founded the " League for the Defence of Human Rights and the Citizen ", because, he said: " It was not only the single cause of a man which was to be defended, but behind this cause, law, justice, humanity ".



Lawyer U Aye Myint (alias Aye Myint Maung) and eight other persons were arrested on 17 July 2003 by members of the Military Intelligence and charged under section 122 of the Penal Code for High Treason for their antigovernment activities.

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