Arakan Kyaw Min and family still detained inside Rangoon Insein Jail

June 28, 2005 (DVB) -

Kyaw Min, the elected representative (MP) of Buthidaung Township, Arakan State and a member of Committee for Representing People’s Parliament (CRPP) who has been detained for more than three months in Rangoon Insein Jail, is still being tried secretly and not allowed to see his family members.

The Burmese authorities arrested Kyaw Min on 17 March and his wife Tiza and daughters Wai Wai Nu and Khin Khin Nu on 5 May, but they are all being detained separately in the same jail.
According to latest reports, local authorities raided and searched Kyaw Min’s home in Buthidaung and asked detailed questions about him in early June.

One of the National League for Democracy (NLD) legal advocates Nyan Win who has been assigned to represent Kyaw Min, attempted to see him at the prison in early June but he was turned away on both occasions.

According to Nyan Win, it is assumed that Kyaw Min and family members are being charged with Act-18 relating to nationality laws.

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