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Hein Htet Kyaw is a working-class activist who is actively struggling against the state sponsored blasphemy laws and intersectional oppressions in Burma. 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 and a spokesperson of Burmese Atheists.