[1][2] He represented Aung San Suu Kyi,[3] among other Myanmar nationals who receive undemocratic trials.
[4] Zaw was born in Pyinmana in 1948,[5] soon after British rule in Burma ended.
[1] In 2017, Zaw took represented two Reuters journalists who were imprisoned for uncovering a massacre of Rohingya muslims.
[6] Zaw serves as the lawyer for Aung San Suu Kyi, a former state counsellor of Myanmar who played a vital role in the country's transition to partial democracy,[7] who was charged for several offences.
[8] When Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy won elections in 2015, beginning a precarious power-sharing with the military, Khin Maung Zaw distanced himself from the political party.