- The people have the right to justice. The summons related to this right is considered a harassment which should have had happened in the state governed by law.
- According to lawyers’ code of conduct, lawyers must keep the information related to the clients and the cases secret. The UN’s Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyer states that a government must assure that lawyers can work freely without intimidation and harassment and that lawyers can freely meet with clients. The act of interrupting and observing the meeting between lawyers and clients will directly affect their right to justice.
- The junta’s current use of the martial law to prohibit any assembly of more than five people are not in line with the spirit of the martial law.
- The government announce its policy to create unity and peace in the nation and want to reform the nation, but the junta’s use of the martial law to intimidate people’s rights is human rights violation and is the real obstacle to build the peaceful nation.
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