The U.N. high commissioner for human rights (OHCHR) warned Wednesday that Myanmar "seems headed in the wrong direction and needs urgently to get back on track." "The international community has seen the transition in Myanmar as a story of promise and hope," Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said in a statement. "But recent developments relating to the human rights of minorities, the freedom of expression and the right to peaceful protest are calling into question the direction of that reform, and even threatening to set it back." Zeid listed recent cases in which the new space for freedom of expression and peaceful protest has been curtailed by regressive application of the law.
