Associations banned encouraging armed-resisting groups
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NP News - Oct 31
The State Administration Council (SAC) enacted a law to prohibit, especially, the association from supporting and encouraging the armed-resisting groups against the State.
The law was ratified on 28 October after signing by Senior General Min Aung Hlaing.
Association means domestic organizations and international non-government organizations, the law expresses.
The law is intended to develop a system in which accountability and responsibility of the associations in their performances will be strictly monitored and observed and to encourage the associations to become a strong institution.
The law prescribes that any registered association shall not engage in any contact with or support or encourage the groups or networks or persons that are conducting the armed resistance courses or committing terror acts or any unlawful association directly or indirectly.
Bleaching the provisions of the law, the responsible leader of the association shall be penalized five years imprisonment or fine with not more than 5,000,000 kyats or both.
Guilty of violating the mentioned law shall cost abolishment of the organization; the assets owned by the association shall be seized as the State budget, the law states.
The former Association Registration Law that was passed by the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw in 2014 in Thein Sein administration is annulled by this new law.