Female Detainee Sexually Assaulted, Tortured During Interrogation: Former Cellmate
Ma Khin Nyein Thu
By The Irrawaddy 24 April 2021
A female detainee accused of involvement in a series of bombings has been sexually assaulted and tortured by junta forces at an interrogation center in Yangon and denied access to medical treatment for her injuries, according to a 17-year-old former detainee recently released from the same facility.
Two women Ma Khin Nyein Thu, 31 and Ma Hsu Linn Htet, 19 and four men were arrested at a house in Yankin Township on April 17 following a series of deadly blasts that killed at least one soldier and wounded several others in Yangon. They have been held at the junta’s interrogation center in Shwepyithar Township, Yangon since April 18.
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Myanmar: Killing of Ah Khu and arbitrary detention of Thin Thin Aung and Myo Aye
23/04/2021
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April 23, 2021
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of FIDH and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Myanmar. Description of the situation:
The Observatory has been informed about the killing of
Ah Khu, director of the civil society group Women for Justice [1], as well as the arbitrary detention of
Thin Thin Aung and
Myo Aye. Thin Thin Aung is the co-founder of Women for Justice, leading member of Women’s League of Burma [2], and co-founder of the independent Mizzima News outlet [3]. Myo Aye is a labour rights activist and director of the Solidarity Trade Union of Myanmar (STUM).
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Myanmar’s Economy in Freefall Under Military Regime
Myanmar’s Economy in Freefall Under Military Regime
Feature: The military regime s security forces guarding City Hall in downtown Yangon Feb.6 / The Irrawaddy
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By The Irrawaddy 22 April 2021
Before last year’s November election, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank predicted that Myanmar would bounce back strongly from the economic impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic, with the economy set to grow at around 6 percent in 2021.
In the immediate aftermath of the military’s Feb. 1 coup, junta leaders sought to keep the economy on track by presenting themselves as business-friendly and saying that economic policies would remain unchanged during the state of emergency. The junta even appointed some individuals to Myanmar’s key economic ministries who were already well-connected and well-known to the international community.