Australian professor Sean Turnell had been advising Myanmar s democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi on economic policy when her government was overthrown in a coup.
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Economics professor Sean Turnell battled rats, scorpions and multiple bouts of Covid while imprisoned in Insein jail in Burma on trumped-up charges, before he was released two weeks ago.
An Australian academic who was jailed by Myanmar s military regime has related his harrowing experiences of being chained in a small cell, eating out of buckets and battling rats and scorpions.