A columnist and a BBC Burmese presenter who were in hiding in Yangon were tracked down and arrested on 15 August and have been held incommunicado ever since. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns these latest arbitrary arrests, carried out at the behest of Myanmar’s military, and calls for their immediate release.
Sithu Aung Myint, whose political commentary appears in the magazine Frontier Myanmar and radio Voice Of America, and Htet Htet Khine, who presents a programme called “
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