{"id":547520,"date":"2010-04-29T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079894.post-3901681491671419404"},"modified":"2010-04-29T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T18:03:00","slug":"suu-kyi-files-suit-in-myanmar-to-stop-dissolution-of-opposition-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/547520","title":{"rendered":"Suu Kyi files suit in Myanmar to stop dissolution of opposition party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[JURIST] Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, filed suit Thursday in Myanmar&#8217;s Supreme Court to stop the dissolution of her opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) under a controversial election law. Suu Kyi is asking the court to annul the part of the election law that bars political prisoners from participating in elections, and also to establish a parliament of lawmakers who won in the 1990 elections. The NLD also filed a similar suit. If the NLD does not re-register by May 6, it may face dissolution.<br \/>\nLast month, the NLD announced that it would not take part in the nation&#8217;s first elections in 20 years after the Myanmar Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit brought by the NLD to repeal the election laws preventing Suu Kyi from participating. Myanmar also faced a bevy of criticism during the month of March, with the UN Human Rights Council adopting a resolution condemning the country for rights violations and urging the ruling junta to conduct fair and free elections. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that Myanmar&#8217;s election laws do not meet international standards, and Human Rights Watch has said &#8221; continues the sham political process that is aimed at creating the appearance of civilian rule with a military spine.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[JURIST] Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, filed suit Thursday in Myanmar&#8217;s Supreme Court to stop the dissolution of her opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) under a controversial election law. Suu Kyi is asking the court to annul the part of the election law that bars political prisoners from participating in elections, and also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4174,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}