Three National League for Democracy (NLD) members,
including two from Gwa township of Rakhine State, were released from Insein
prison after completion of their jail terms.
Rakhine State’s NLD vice-chairman U Soe Lay, Rakhine
NLD youth works member Ko Hein Min Thant and former NLD representative to
National Hluttaw and the
chairman of NLD’s peasant affairs committee U Ba Myo Thein were released on
Friday in the morning hours.
“I heard that they were
released as they have already completed their jail terms. At this moment, I have no more details,” said an
individual close to them.
Narinjara News tried to contact Soe Lay, a former
National Hluttaw representative from Gwa and member of National Hluttaw's
peasant affairs committee, by his cellphone, but failed.
They all were arrested
from Shwegontai NLD headquarter in May 2021 after the military coup in Myanmar.
Next year, they were sentenced to
three years in prison under section 17 (1) of the Unlawful Association Act.
No less than 25,369 people were arrested (out of them 5,724 are
released) by the military junta soon after the coup. According to the
Association for Assistance of Political Prisoners (AAPP), 163 individuals have
been sentenced to capital punishment by the junta courts.
Photo: Ba Myo Thein and U Soe Lay
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