James Mawdsley
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James Rupert Russell Mawdsley is a human rights activist campaigning for democracy in Burma. He is a dual citizen of the United Kingdom
and Australia
.
Mawdsley was arrested three times for his involvement and deported three times. He spent over a year in a prison in Myanmar during 1999 and 2000, as part of a seventeen year jail sentence, after taking part in pro-democracy protests in Rangoon.
His imprisonment was held to be arbitrary by the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
in 2000. Mawdsley was released from jail in October 2000 after pressure was exerted by the Unit
He wrote The Heart Must Break: the Fight for Democracy and Truth in Burma, published in the US as The Iron Road: A Stand for Truth and Democracy in Burma by North Point Press in 2002.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
and Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
.
Mawdsley was arrested three times for his involvement and deported three times. He spent over a year in a prison in Myanmar during 1999 and 2000, as part of a seventeen year jail sentence, after taking part in pro-democracy protests in Rangoon.
His imprisonment was held to be arbitrary by the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention is a UN-mandated body of independent human rights experts that investigates cases of arbitrary arrest and detention that may be in violation of international human rights law....
in 2000. Mawdsley was released from jail in October 2000 after pressure was exerted by the Unit
He wrote The Heart Must Break: the Fight for Democracy and Truth in Burma, published in the US as The Iron Road: A Stand for Truth and Democracy in Burma by North Point Press in 2002.