(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.
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