Detained NLD leader likely to be shifted to another jail

by Myo Gyi
Thursday, 04 June 2009 18:12

Ruili (Mizzima) - Myo Khin, Chairman of Rangoon’s Yankin Township National League for Democracy party, serving a prison term in Bamo jail in upper Burma is likely to be transferred to another prison on health grounds, family members said.

His wife, Khin KHi Win, who recently visited him, said, “When I visited, I met the SB [Special Branch Police] and the jailer. They told me that they will transfer my husband on June 5 and said it was on health grounds. They will transfer him to a prison where there is a doctor. I don’t know the details as yet.”

She said her husband suffers from severe cardiac problems as well as high blood pressure. On May 21, he fainted and fell down. Again on May 23, he vomited so severely that he had to be taken to Bamo hospital.

“He is not in good health. He has cardiac problems and high blood pressure. He fainted thrice in jail,” Khin Khin Win said.

Myo Khin sustained minor injuries on his head and on his eyebrow from the fall. An X-ray was taken at the hospital before he was discharged on May 26.

Myo Khin was arrested on August 23, 2007 for being involved in mass protest against skyrocketing essential commodity prices. He was charged for instigating public unrest, and disrespectful act against the government. He was sentenced to four years in prison on November 13, 2007.

He was later transferred from Rangoon to Bamo prison in Kachin State in upper Burma.