Hein Htet Kyaw

Hein Htet Kyaw is a working-class activist who is actively struggling against the state sponsored blasphemy laws and intersectional oppressions in Burma. Hein was born in Burma to a mixed religious (Buddhism and Muslim) and mixed ethnic (Shan, Kachin, Burmese, and Bengali) family. He was raised as a Muslim by his father and raised secretly as a Buddhist by his mother. He is deeply involved in Burmese Buddhist religious reformist movements and Burmese Islamic reformist movements. He has initiated several direct-action projects against state sponsored blasphemy laws in Burma. Hein considers himself a political atheist, whose position is one of secularism and preventing religious privilege from dominating shared public spaces (laws, government, schools, and institutions). He takes an interest in human rights, social justice, labour rights, and secularism. Hein is currently the Director of Australasia for Atheist Alliance International.