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HRD Attack

Thandar Soe Lin - Action Labour Rights

Incident date
1 Jun 2023
Date accuracy
Year and Month Correct
Thandar Soe Lin
Unknown
Action Labour Rights
Labour rights group
Arrest or detention
Target: Individual
Location of Incident: Myanmar
Zara (part of Inditex) Spain Clothing & textile
JAKO Germany Clothing & textile
Sun Apparel Myanmar Myanmar Clothing & textile
Other actors

Sources

In June 2023, two members of Action Labor Rights group in Myanmar, Thandar Soe Lin and Pyoe Myat Thin, were arrested along with union members Ma Aung Aung, Ma Thandar Aye, Ma Ayr Thandar Htay, Ma May Thu Min and Ma Thu Thu San from Hosheng Garment which is a supplier for Zara, and union leaders Thidar Win and Hlaing Win Htet, from Sun Apparel garment factory, supplier for JAKO Sports Clothing. The union members were arrested after demanding a pay raise for factory workers.

Action Labor Rights is a Yangon-based union that has been calling for protection of the rights of workers and has faced threats and other forms of attacks related to their defense of labour rights in Myanmar since the February 2021 coup.