Joint Statement on Burma’s Political Prisoners

On the visit of Bo Kyi, former political prisoner and Joint-Secretary of the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners-Burma, to Brussels, the Open Society Foundations joined other organizations asking the EU to strengthen its call to the Burmese regime to immediately and unconditionally release all political prisoners. Renewed diplomatic efforts by the EU must not avoid the issue of systematic and widespread imprisonment, mistreatment, and torture of individuals on political grounds.