Tag: detention
Ye Mon’s nightmare: ‘I reported on the military’s abuses, and then I became a victim’
By Ye Mon, Frontier Myanmar IN A RARE first-hand account, Frontier Myanmar journalist Ye Mon recounts being beaten and sexually abused by regime soldiers in December 2021 after being detained at Yangon International Airport. I couldn’t see the soldiers through my blindfold, but their words were terrifying enough. “If they refused to answer our …
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Four protest leaders denied bail for the fourth time
FOUR protest leaders held in pretrial detention since Feb. 9 were for the fourth time denied temporary bail by the Criminal Court today (Feb. 22), Siam Rath newspaper quoted Mr. Paisal Puechmongkol, a former assistant deputy prime minister, as saying in his Facebook post. Paisal mentioned that the court did now allow the four protest …
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Two Turks break out of detention centre in Mae Sot
TWO Turkish men used a saw blade to cut the bars at their detention room in Mae Sot and fled last night with police hunting for them at this city bordering Myanmar, Sanook.com reported this afternoon (Oct. 14, 2020). The two men, Mr. Murad Yeslicana, 41, and Mr. Razid Ashim, 29, had been sent by …