About 50 farmers protested yesterday to support prominent labor activist Su Su Nway at her first day in court in Bago Division.
A representative of the Myanmar Farmers Union, Su Su Nway is being charged with trespassing after she allegedly went inside a military compound in Bago about a month ago without approval.
For some time she’d been helping farmers in the area who accuse the military of occupying a large swath of their land and destroying their crops.
She was summonsed to court, and, when she didn’t appear, police arrested her in Bago’s Inn Daw Kaw Township on July 23 while on a bus to Yangon.
Her husband Ko Mar Kee told Radio Free Asia’s Burmese service this week that there is no evidence.
“They can’t prove that Su Su Nway was trespassing in their territory,” he said.
The next trial date is scheduled for August 6.
Photo: Su Su Nway / Facebook
