{"id":1068290,"date":"2023-05-30T07:51:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T07:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/myanmar\/cdm-teacher-05302023035021.html"},"modified":"2023-05-30T07:51:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T07:51:41","slug":"myanmar-military-arrests-civil-disobedience-movement-teacher-in-ayeyarwady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/05\/30\/myanmar-military-arrests-civil-disobedience-movement-teacher-in-ayeyarwady\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar military arrests civil disobedience movement teacher in Ayeyarwady"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n        <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Junta troops have arrested a teacher in Myanmar\u2019s southwestern Ayeyarwady region claiming she has links to the shadow National Unity Government, according to pro-junta Telegram messaging channels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Residents of Bogale township told RFA Tuesday that 30-year-old Theint Theint Soe was arrested on May 23. She has been working as a teacher for eight years and participated in the civil disobedience movement following the February 2021 military coup, the locals said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHer husband was arrested a week earlier. The teacher was arrested on the same day that her husband was released,\u201d said a resident who didn\u2019t want to be named for fear of reprisals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cShe was arrested for allegedly supporting participants in the civil disobedience movement.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Residents said Theint Theint Soen was being held at Bogale Police Station but it was not clear what laws she had been accused of breaking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Telegram channels that support the junta said she was arrested because a document certified by the shadow National Unity Government board of education was found with her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nearly 300 civil disobedience movement teachers have been arrested since the 2021 coup, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Translated by RFA Burmese. Edited by Mike Firn.<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n        \n    \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\"><br>\r\nThis content originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/myanmar\/cdm-teacher-05302023035021.html\" >Radio Free Asia<\/a> and was authored by By RFA Burmese.  <br><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2023\/05\/30\/myanmar-military-arrests-civil-disobedience-movement-teacher-in-ayeyarwady\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The junta claims she had a document connecting her to the shadow National Unity Government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21984,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[917,2242,61051,42905,42907,42620,10,42731,1589,785,27149,27150,3874],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068291,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068290\/revisions\/1068291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}