Asian Human Rights Commission - The Hinthada 6 Campaign

AHRC-UAU-016-2009: BURMA: Concerns for the health of detained human rights defenders
UP-144-2007: BURMA: Appeals against imprisonment of seven human rights defenders rejected; more reportedly jailed
UP-105-2007: BURMA: Six human rights defenders given jail terms; one awaits verdict
UP-082-2007: BURMA: Assaulted rights defenders imprisoned & face serious legal action, while officials escape charges of assault
UP-062-2007: BURMA: Urgent developments in case of attacked human rights defenders
UA-135-2007: BURMA: Government-backed gang attacks human rights defenders

Who are the Hinthada 6?

Court Verdicts (in PDF format)

UPI Asia Online
- A duck, six prisoners and human rights in Burma

article 2
- The Hinthada 6: Victims of a criminally insane system

Pyithu Hittaing
- Vol. 2 No. 4 - 24 July 2007 issue
- Vol. 2 No. 3 - 8 May 2007 issue

AHRC-OL-035-2007: MYANMAR/BURMA: 19 members of a single human rights group detained, imprisoned or missing
AHRC-OL-027-2007: BURMA/ MYANMAR: Trial of six workers' rights advocates an important challenge for ILO
AHRC-OL-025-2007: BURMA/MYANMAR: Concerted attacks on human rights defenders demand stronger and better-informed international response
AS-125-2007:BURMA: Worrying resurgence of government-backed goon squads
AHRC-PL-030-2007: BURMA: Complaint lodged with Asean over jailed human rights defender

Please note: In some documents on this site, �Hinthada?is also transliterated as �Henzada? The place is the same.

On 18 April 2007, four men in Hinthada, a township in the coastal delta region of Burma, were attacked by a government-organised gang. On July 24, one of them and five local farmers were sentenced to four to eight years in jail for �upsetting public tranquillity? Together they are The HINTHADA 6. To find out more about their story and what it means for human rights in Burma, read more...


AHRC-UAU-016-2009: BURMA: Concerns for the health of detained human rights defenders UP-144-2007: BURMA: Appeals against imprisonment of seven human rights defenders rejected; more reportedly jailed UP-105-2007: BURMA: Six human rights defenders given jail terms; one awaits verdict UP-082-2007: BURMA: Assaulted rights defenders imprisoned & face serious legal action, while officials escape charges of assault UP-062-2007: BURMA: Urgent developments in case of attacked human rights defenders UA-135-2007: BURMA: Government-backed gang attacks human rights defenders	Who are the Hinthada 6? Court Verdicts (in PDF format) UPI Asia Online A duck, six prisoners and human rights in Burma article 2 The Hinthada 6: Victims of a criminally insane system Pyithu Hittaing Vol. 2 No. 4 - 24 July 2007 issue Vol. 2 No. 3 - 8 May 2007 issue http://www.yoma3.org/news/2007/july/HRDPlong_term.html http://www.yoma3.org/news/2007/june/oakponecase.html http://www.yoma3.org/news/2007/june/hrdp-trial.html http://www.yoma3.org/news/2007/may/komyinthlaing.html http://www.yoma3.org/news/2007/may/HRDPstm.html http://www.yoma3.org/news/2007/may/HRDPupdate4.5.html http://www.yoma3.org/news/2007/may/HRDP&court.html http://www.yoma3.org/news/2007/april/HRDP&justice.html http://www.yoma3.org/news/2007/april/HRDPkmhl.html http://www.yoma3.org/news/2007/april/HRDPsOffhospital.html http://www.yoma3.org/news/2007/april/HRDPs.html

AHRC-OL-035-2007: MYANMAR/BURMA: 19 members of a single human rights group detained, imprisoned or missing AHRC-OL-027-2007: BURMA/ MYANMAR: Trial of six workers' rights advocates an important challenge for ILO AHRC-OL-025-2007: BURMA/MYANMAR: Concerted attacks on human rights defenders demand stronger and better-informed international response AS-125-2007:BURMA: Worrying resurgence of government-backed goon squads AHRC-PL-030-2007: BURMA: Complaint lodged with Asean over jailed human rights defender