Par Par Lay

[1] His grandfather and father were Ah Nyeint performers, a form of Burmese entertainment where the participants mix satire, humor, dance and music.

[1] In 1990, he was arrested for the first time and sentenced to six months in prison for campaigning during the run-up to the general election.

[1] All four achieved international attention when they were arrested in the middle of the night in Mandalay just three days later.

[2] Par Par Lay campaigned throughout Burma on behalf of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) during the 2012 Burmese parliamentary by-elections campaign.

[1] The NLD won the by-elections by a wide landslide, taking 43 of the 44 contested seats.