Germany-Berlin: Aung San Suu Kyi and Cinema for Peace ask for your support to free the artists Zarganar and Kyaw Thu in Burma
February 24, 2011
Petition for Burma
Aung San Suu Kyi and Cinema for Peace ask for your support to free the artists Zarganar and Kyaw Thu in Burma
At the 10th Cinema for Peace Gala, Nobel Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi called on the film community to stand up for Burma. Help to free fellow artists and filmmakers in Burma by signing the petition.
The Burmese popular artist Zarganar has received a sentence of 59 years in 2008. He was sent to prison for publicly supporting peaceful protests against the government. The Burmese actor and Myanmar Academy Award winner U Kyaw Thu suffers the same fate. Freedom of speech is tightly restrained in Burma: Much like Zarganar and U Kyaw Thu, countless artists are under arrest or prevented from working in their craft, because they engaged in humanitarian activities or criticised the government.
Support our campaign for Zarganar and U Kyaw Thu by signing this petition and sending it back to our Cinema for Peace office:
To President Thein Sein,
We, the undersigned artists and filmmakers, call for creative freedom in Burma, the immediate removal of work bans for artists and the immediate release of the artists U Kyaw Thu and Zarganar who currently are imprisoned for their political opinions and their commitment for their own country.
The Undersigned,
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Please send a signed version of this text to: Cinema for Peace, Friedrichstr. 125, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
Click here to download our detailed information leaflet about Aung San Suu Kyi, Zarganar and Kyaw Thu.
If you require any further information, please contact the CINEMA FOR PEACE office by calling Carolina Zishiri +49.30.76.77.525.14 or via e-mail to carolina.zishiri@cinemaforpeace.com.
http://www.cinemaforpeace-foundation.com/images-videos-and-documents/petition-for-burma
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