Punishment for breach of marriage law has been amended.
Occurred in Myanmar on May 11, 2015 at noon
Reported by Drew Boyd via Internet on May 11, 2015 at noon
Reported by Drew Boyd via Internet on May 11, 2015 at noon
# discrimination
# Legislation
# Marriage
# Buddhism
This report is Confirmed true
and is of
Medium Priority.
Here is why -
Marriage law is one of the four Race and Religion Protection Laws that prohibit
Buddhist woman from converting to other religion and to marry a non-Buddhist man.
Breach of the law has a consequence of punishment and amendment has been
proposed to reduce the punishment.
On 11th May, the amendment was proposed by the national lawmakers committee
during the parliament session and aimed to reduce the jail terms from 5 years to 2
years. The amendment aimed to change the punishment for the breach of section 19,
subsection (F), (G) and (H). The amendment proposed that the punishment should
not be more than 2 years jail including less than 1.5 million Kyat fine.
The section 19, subsection (F) says that the faith of Burmese Buddhist women must
not be insulted by any mean verbally, written word or any description or gesture.
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The subsection (G) says that the funeral service must be conducted according to the
Buddhist culture, when the Burmese Buddhist woman passed away,
The subsection (H) prohibited from insulting the place of worship and sacred items
that belongs to Burmese Buddhist woman.
Resolution added by - Drew Boyd