China Daily | Updated: 2021-02-06 09:33 Share CLOSE Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi smiles as she attends a photo opportunity after the opening ceremony of the 21st Century Panglong Conference in Naypyitaw, Myanmar on May 24, 2017. [Photo/Agencies]
U Win Htein, patron of Myanmar s National League for Democracy, or NLD, was arrested late on Thursday, an official from the Myanmar Police Force said on Friday.
The 80-year-old, who is believed to be a trusted confidant of the party s chairwoman Aung San Suu Kyi, was taken to a district police station in Nay Pyi Taw soon after his arrival in Yangon from the national capital on Thursday, Kyi Toe, a member of the party s information committee, wrote on his social media account earlier.
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