Myanmar dispatches: updates and analysis from JURIST correspondents in Myanmar
JURIST
APRIL 23, 2021
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Many in Myanmar and abroad were shaken Thursday by an interview conducted by US-funded Radio Free Asia that described conditions for detainees held at the Shwe Yamin Htet interrogation center in Yangon in the third month of the country’s military coup. A 17-year old detainee released by authorities Tuesday described grotesque violence – including sexual abuse – committed by police against multiple young detainees held after protests.
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