(3.6) Sexual Harassments of Woman Lawyers The junta troops have subjected young female lawyers providing legal representation to political prisoners arrested for participating in the protests to various forms of sexual harassment, according to one of these lawyers. Previously, female lawyers were permitted to meet with detainees with the approval of the prison warden. Lawyers often experience verbal harassment and physical harassment by drunk soldiers assigned as guards in the prison while visiting detainees there. When a female lawyer met her client at a court hearing in Yangon, a soldier “said, “Madam, I will walk you to the defendant” and touched her shoulder, back and finally her bottom. In a separate court hearing, the sexually perverted soldiers used vulgar language referring to us - that is difficult for me to mention here – and stared at our top and bottom”,21 a woman lawyer said. According to the answers, verbal sexual harassment has become a common practice for ordinary soldiers. During working hours, junta soldiers sexually harass young female lawyers, and no legal protection is available for being bullied by them with arms, posing dire security risks for them without any response. Chapter (4) Conclusion There have been a number of protests against the terrorist military since the coup on 1 February 2021. Such movements have gained massive public participation and involvement from people across the country since the initial stage. However, public participation in protests has declined significantly since the military started cracking down violently on peaceful protests. Soldiers loyal to the terrorist organization have used assault weapons to suppress the protests of the populace and have committed unjust arrests, beatings and murders of innocent people. The terrorists have also used all available means to suppress flash mobs in the cities in a widespread and effective manner. In many cases, the terrorist military sentenced the unjustly arrested people to heavy imprisonment terms under irrelevant legal provisions or charges after forced detention in the interrogation centers without compliance with the code of judiciary procedures. However, the people continue participating in respective fields of public revolution against the junta from the beginning of the protests despite various ways of oppression by the terrorist military. 23

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