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Myanmar Junta Releases US Journalist After Ex-Diplomat’s Intervention

November 15, 2021/in News

Myanmar’s junta released and deported the US journalist Danny Fenster on Monday, three days after sentencing him to 11 years for incitement, contacting an illegal organization and breaching visa regulations. The regime’s spokesman confirmed the 37-year-old’s deportation after his release from Yangon’s Insein Prison. The release followed the former US diplomat and ex-New Mexico governor […]

Man dies in junta custody after soldiers detain him because they couldn’t find his nephew

November 15, 2021/in News

The body of Ye Aung, 33, had numerous head injuries when his family came to collect it A man who was detained when soldiers were unable to find his nephew during a raid in Mandalay Region last week died in junta custody within hours, with his body showing signs of severe injury when his family […]

Myanmar Junta Releases US Journalist After Ex-Diplomat’s Intervention

November 15, 2021/in News

Man dies in junta custody after soldiers detain him because they couldn’t find his nephew

November 15, 2021/in News

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Myanmar Junta Releases US Journalist After Ex-Diplomat’s Intervention

November 15, 2021/in News

The regime’s spokesman confirmed the 37-year-old’s deportation after his release from Yangon’s Insein Prison.

The release followed the former US diplomat and ex-New Mexico governor Bill Richardson’s meeting with the regime’s leader Min Aung Hlaing.

On Monday, the Richardson Center tweeted that Fenster’s release was secured following a private humanitarian visit by Richardson and negotiations with Min Aung Hlaing.

The tweet said “We are so grateful that Danny will finally be able to reconnect with his loved ones, who have been advocating for him all this time, against immense odds.”

It was posted with a picture of Fenster and Richardson at the airport in Yangon.

Fenster, the managing editor of the online news site Frontier Myanmar, was arrested on May 24 at Yangon’s airport shortly while boarding a flight to Malaysia. He was held in Insein.

“We are relieved that Danny is finally out of prison – somewhere he never should have been in the first place,” said Frontier editor-in-chief Thomas Kean.

Before working for Frontier Myanmar, Fenster was with Myanmar Now after joining The Irrawaddy for a few months.

On Friday, the US State Department condemned the sentence as an unjust conviction of an innocent person.

Fenster is the third foreign journalist to be detained by the junta. Two freelancers, Robert Bociaga from Poland and Yuki Kitazumi from Japan, were detained before Fenster’s arrest. Both were later freed and deported.

Since the military takeover, the regime has targeted journalists with arrests, lawsuits, raids on newsrooms and violence in an attempt to suppress coverage of the junta’s lethal crackdowns on pro-democracy protesters.

Around 100 journalists have been detained by the regime since the coup. Around 50 of them remain in prison.

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Man dies in junta custody after soldiers detain him because they couldn’t find his nephew

November 15, 2021/in News

The body of Ye Aung, 33, had numerous head injuries when his family came to collect it

A man who was detained when soldiers were unable to find his nephew during a raid in Mandalay Region last week died in junta custody within hours, with his body showing signs of severe injury when his family went to collect it.

Ye Aung, 33, was taken from home to the village of Kyauktada, Madaya Township, on Friday afternoon when troops arrived searching for his 24-year-old nephew, who is a protest organiser in the village.

The family has said they do not want to disclose the name of the protest leader, who has been in hiding for several months. Soldiers also took the protest leader’s 48-year-old father, Myint Aung, who has not been heard from since.

“They both were taken at around 4pm and Ye Aung’s family was notified the next morning that he had died,” a Kyauktada villager told Myanmar Now. “I heard he was sent to the interrogation center. The family had to go there to take his body back home.”

Ye Aung’s body showed signs that he had been badly beaten in custody; he had numerous injuries on his head, said the villager. Ye Aung left behind his baby and his wife, who had given birth just a few days before he was detained.

Neither of the two men who were taken took part in the underground movement against the dictatorship, the villager said.

Soldiers destroyed furniture and took computers, mobile phones and money from the house while arresting Ye Aung, locals said.

Myint Naing’s family are reportedly in fear for his life as they heard that he was also sent to the interrogation center.

Locals from Mattaya said that the military has conducted frequent raids on villages within the township since early November and arrested several teachers taking part in the Civil DIsobedience Movement (CDM).

Local resistance forces in the township have launched ambushes against military units.

On Friday a bomb exploded at a security checkpoint on the road leading into the township, killing a military captain, a private, and three police officers, said local news reports and the Madaya People’s Defence Force (PDF).

Then on Saturday soldiers arrested a married couple, both teachers, who were taking part in the CDM. The couple were beaten at their home before being taken away to an undisclosed location.

“I think teachers have become their favourite targets lately. We still haven’t heard anything about the teacher couple,” said a Madaya local.

In early October 35-year-old Thein Zaw was detained by junta forces in Madaya and his body was found near his village three days later.

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