In a tweet, EU Parliament representative said that the choice to suspend Aung San Suu Kyi from the Sakharov Prize Community was taken due to her acknowledgment of the continuous violations against the Rohingya people group in Myanmar. 

 More than 700,000 Rohingya, a generally Muslim minority, fled to neighboring Bangladesh after a grisly crackdown in 2017 by the Myanmar military, which UN specialists have finished up was done with "destructive aim".