Shepard Fairey’s political artwork of Burmese leader

An artistic feat, indeed.

Renown artist Shepard Fairey (famous for his Obama election “HOPE” posters and “Obey Giant”) released a poster of Burmese prime minister-elect and democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Nobel peace prize winner Suu Kyi remains under house arrest by the military junta; however, she is receiving wide international support of her freedom, human rights, and democracy in Burma.

Copies are available for distribution via download: http://obeygiant.com/ (not intended for sales merchandise or for-profit materials)

Aung San Suu Kyi charged with violating house arrest

Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Image from http://www.jghs.edin.sch.uk/images/architecture/pix/communities/kyi300.jpg.

Excerpt from The Independent (UK) article on Thursday, May 14:

Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi could be facing up to five years in prison after being charged with violating the terms of her house arrest.

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was today charged with breaching the terms of her house arrest and faces up to five years in jail for allowing an American man to stay at her lakeside home, her party said.

Activists denounced her trial, set to begin on Monday, as a ploy by the country’s junta to keep Suu Kyi, 63, sidelined ahead of elections in 2010.

The Nobel Peace laureate’s National League for Democracy (NLD) won a huge victory in 1990 polls only to be denied power by the military, which has ruled the former Burma since 1962.

Suu Kyi, whose latest six-year detention is due to expire on May 27, will remain in Yangon’s Insein Prison for a trial that has been scheduled for May 18, a spokesman for the National League for Democracy (NLD) said.

The article goes on to say that Suu Kyi has been in frail health, suffering dehydration and low blood pressure.

Let’s keep Suu Kyi and the people of Burma in our thoughts and prayers and hope that they will soon win democracy and justice.

– posted by Debbie Chong