3 political prisoners released

DVB ( 12 November 2003 )

Ko Htay Nyunt who was accused of being an underground communist agent and two other political prisoners (Ko Ko Naing and Kyaw Sein Maung) were released by the SPDC on 31 October from Mandalay Prison.

Ko Htay Nyunt (son of Thakhin Thar Nyunt), a policeman was sentence to ten years and imprisoned in 1989 by military intelligence agents for allegedly supplying information to communist fighters when the Burma Communist Party (BCP) had already collapsed in Burma.

He was transferred to several prisons and treated inhumanely and his sentenced was extended to another four years.

His older sister, Daw Cho Cho Nwe said that her brother is damaged both physically and mentally, and he is suffering from many kinds of illness because of the treatments he received in the prisons.