A lawyer representing student activists who were jailed earlier this year during a protest over education policy that turned violent in the town of Letpadan filed charges on Tuesday against police commanders for the arbitrary detention of his clients RFA reported on 28 July.
Robert San Aung, the lawyer representing students who were arrested in the March 10 crackdown, asked the Tharrawaddy district court to take action against Letpadan township police commander Phone Myint and deputy commander San Myint for the unlawful arrest of students and supporters.
Police assaulted students during a peaceful protest demanding education reform in central Myanmar’s Letpadan in the Tharrawaddy district of the country’s Bago division, where they had stopped on a cross-country march to the commercial capital Yangon. Police arrested 127 students and their supporters and sent them directly to jail.
The court will decide on 4 August whether to pursue charges against Phone Myint and his deputy for the arbitrary detention of the students the report said.