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