• Su Su Nway is the first Burmese citizen to have successfully brought charges against local regime officials for forced labor practices. She filed a complaint after she was forced, along with other villagers, to work on road construction project by local SPDC authorities. Her forced labor complaint led to three SPDC officials in Htan Manaing village, Kawmoo Township, Rangoon Division, receiving prison sentences of between 8 to 16 months on 31 January 2005.
• In late April 2005, the same officials that had been convicted on forced labor violations in January filed charges that she had obstructed them in the performance of their official duties. On 30 June 2005, the Kawmoo Township Court charged her with allegedly using abusive language and threatening the Htan Manaing SPDC village authorities.
• On 18 October 2005, she was sentenced to 18 months in jail and detained in Insein prison. Prison officials confiscated her heart medication. On 4 January 2006, she was hospitalized at the prison’s clinic. On 6 June 2006, the SPDC released her from prison.
• On 15 May 2007 she was arrested along with other activists while they were on their way to pray for the release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in Rangoon. Following her arrest, she was hospitalized at the Muslim Free Hospital in Rangoon. She was freed on 7 June.
• On 28 August 2007, pro-junta thugs attacked her while she demonstrated against the regime along with other NLD members in Rangoon’s Hledan Township.
• On 13 November 2007, she was arrested for putting up anti-junta posters in Rangoon’s Bahan Township. She was detained in Insein prison. In late January 2008, the SPDC filed criminal charges against her.
• On 5 July 2008, she was put in solitary confinement following an argument with Insein prison officials.
• On 11 November 2008, she was sentenced to 12 years and six months in prison and subsequently transferred from Insein prison to Kale prison in Sagaing Division. In February 2009, her prison sentence was reduced to eight years and six months.
• She has a heart condition and prison authorities have repeatedly denied her adequate medical attention, included needed medications and regular checkups.
