Mya Htwe  Shin, Narinjara News, 8 April 2022

Two Iden villagers from  Ponna Kyun township in  Rakhine State, who are under detention for morethan two years with the suspicion of beingrelated to the Arakan Army, have been suffering from depression due to repeated postponement of thefinal verdict.

Nay Lin Htay (27 years old) and U Maung Saw Aye (33) from Aidin village are accused of being affiliatedwith AA under section 50 (j) ofthe violence act.  They are prosecuted under article 52 (a) too. The final verdict is yet to come.

7 April was  the final verdict day for their cases but the court did not pronounce any verdict, said KyawNyunt Maung, a lawyer representingthem in the court.

"The convicts were not sentenced on 7 April too. The Sittwe district court is seemingly not  ready forthe sentence till date. It has been almostthree months that the verdict is pending,” added the lawyer.

The next hearing day is fixed on  21 April. Both the accused villagers have been appearing in the courtseveral times since December last year.

Maung Saw Aye, who is facing depression,  had to consult with doctors and take medicines following skindiseases that appeared due to carelessness,said his sister while talking to Narinjara News.

"I want them to return home as soon as possible after the final verdict for an unknown case. As he wasworried too much, he simply avoidedtaking baths.  He has developed many other physical problems. So we are sending  medicines forhim,” she added.

Both of them were arrested on 6 March 2020 from Kyauktan village under Sittwe township, while they werereturning home on a motorcycle. Next day,they were prosecuted by the  court following the charge framed by Captain Aung Phyo Myint of 908thEngineer Battalion under section 50 (j)of the Criminal Code.