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Iran: Human rights groups protest detentions and travel bans

Joint statement from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Federation for Human Rights, Reporters Without Borders

(New York, May 31, 2007) ? The Iranian government should immediately release two Iranian-Americans from detention and clarify the case of a third who may have ?disappeared,? a group of leading human rights organizations said today. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Federation for Human Rights, Reporters Without Borders and the Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi also urged Iran to lift travel bans on two journalists with dual nationality whom Iran has barred from traveling back to their home countries
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Philippines slams Myanmar over Suu Kyi

Statement of

DR. ALBERTO G. ROMULO
Secretary of Foreign Affairs

On the Extension of the House Arrest of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

29 May 2007

The Philippines deeply regrets the Myanmar Government’s decision to extend
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s house arrest.

The Myanmar Government has expressed its full adherence to the Roadmap to
Democracy. Yet this delay in Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s release ? and those of
other political prisoners – reflects the Myanmar Government’s unwillingness
to demonstrate its genuine commitment to full democratization and national
reconciliation.
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