City council faces vote on Aung San Suu Kyi’s Freedom of Dublin award

Aung San Suu Kyi’s Freedom of Dublin award could be rescinded tonight. City councillors are meeting to discuss calls to remove the honour she has held for 17 years.

Dublin City Council’s monthly meeting faces two decisions, because the leader of Myanmar has refused to acknowledge the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people in the west of the country.

Rock star and human rights campaigner, Bob Geldof, last month publicly handed back his own freedom-of-the-city scroll and asked that his name be taken off the register of recipients, in protest at Ms Suu Kyi’s continued inclusion.