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Nearly 50 prisoners held in Myanmar’s notorious Insein prison are infected with COVID-19 but are being denied effective medical treatment by the country’s military, which overthrew the country’s democratically elected government in a Feb. 1 coup, lawyers for some inmates said on Friday.
Among the 48 now infected are political leaders from the ousted National League for Democracy (NLD), doctors connected to the country’s Civil Disobedience Movement, and American journalist Danny Fenster, editor of the online Frontier Myanmar magazine.
Top NLD leader Nyan Win, 78, and Yangon Region Social Affairs Minister Naing Lin, both now diagnosed with COVID-19, were arrested on Feb. 1. Nyan Win has been charged under Section 505(b) of Myanmar’s Penal Code for calling the military coup unlawful and its instructions invalid.
More Than 110 People Abducted by Myanmar Junta This Week
More Than 110 People Abducted by Myanmar Junta This Week
More than 110 people, many of them student activists and youth protesters, were abducted by the junta this week.
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By The Irrawaddy 23 April 2021
More than 110 people, many of them student activists and youth protesters, were abducted by the junta this week as it intensified its clampdown on opponents of the re-instatement of military dictatorship.
Junta forces conducted arbitrary abductions in a number of cities in Mandalay, Sagaing, Yangon, Tanintharyi and Ayeyarwady regions and Kachin, Karen and Shan states throughout the week.
On Thursday, they rounded up four university students in Myayi Nandar ward in Mandalay. Two university students were arrested in Pathein Township in Ayeyarwady Region by plainclothes officers, while two students, including a high school student, were arrested in Dawei, Tanintharyi Region during a crackdown on anti-regime protests. The
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Among the daily stream of photos revealing the cruelty of Myanmar’s junta, blurred stills of the last moments of a young lady in pink, left to die on a deserted, dark street in Mandalay, paint a picture of abject horror.
In one of the two photos, taken from a distance and shared widely on social media on Sunday night, the grievously injured woman lies motionless in sleeveless pale pink overalls, soiled by dirt and perhaps her own blood, one arm outstretched.