Pyone Cho
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Pyone Cho (whose birth name is Htay Win Aung) is an internationally-recognized human rights activist and former student leader of the 1988 People’s Democracy Movement in Burma.[1] Phone Cho spent twenty years of his adult life as a prisoner of conscience. From 1988 to 2012, Pyone Cho was illegally detained and imprisoned by the Burmese military government multiple times for his nonviolent work, advocating for democracy and demanding basic freedoms for the people of Burma.[2] In November of 2015, Pyone Cho was elected as a member of the Burmese Parliament as part of the Lower House (Pyithu Hlutaw) for the township of Dawpone. He is the first student leader of the 1988 democracy movement to be elected into the Burmese Parliament.[3] [4]Prior to becoming a member of the Burmese Parliament, Pyone Cho was one of the main leaders of the 88 Generation Peace and Open Society, a political and human rights organization in Burma, consisting of democracy activists from the 1988 Uprising[5], the 1996/1998 student democracy movement, and other younger generation of activists. Phone Cho's younger brother, Thet Win Aung, is also an internationally recognized human rights figure. The Win Aung died tragically in Mandalay prison at the age of thirty-five, after being imprisoned and tortured for engaging in peaceful acts of protest.[6][7]
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