A Chance to Fix in Time: Analysis of Freedom of Expression in Four Years Under the Current Government Sayadaw U Sorbhita (Thaw Bita) seen at a court appearance 2.2 Lawsuits under the Law Protecting the Privacy and Security of Citizens States have an obligation to provide full protection to people in a democratic society and must respect the privacy of every single person in the country. Article 12 of Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) also states “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his or her privacy”. The Law Protecting the Privacy and Security of Citizens was enacted on March 8, 2017. Although the law was enacted for prevention of stalking eavesdropping, Myanmar Police Force’s Special Branch (SB) and military intelligence still conduct pursuing and inquiries to activists and politicians meanwhile the original objective of the law is not implemented. The law becomes a misused law in reality while its objectives are only in utopia. Section (8) of the privacy law is criminal defamation clause and Section (10) is the penalty clause. Anyone who commits the offence prohibited in Section (8) will have to face trial without getting bail because the maximum penalty for offences in Section (8) is three-year imprisonment. In some cases, the third-party complainants file lawsuits on behalf of someone as there is no specific or clear legal provision on “legal representative”. Furthermore, Athan found in trial records that courts make decisions on the cases without 14 Chapter (2): Freedom of Expression