Political prisoner and National League for Democracy (NLD) party patron Win Htein was admitted to hospital in Mandalay on Wednesday for health issues related to intense heat while in incarceration, his daughter said.
Temperatures in the central Myanmar city have soared to 46 degrees Celsius in recent days. Chit Su Win Htein, 37, said that her 83-year-old father, who is being held in Mandalay’s notorious Obo Prison, “was sick with heat exhaustion and a slight fever.”
Former army captain Win Htein was arrested three days after the February 2021 military coup that ousted the elected civilian NLD government headed by Aung San Suu Kyi. He had spoken to reporters and publicly criticised the military and its commander, Min Aung Hlaing, for staging the takeover.
In October of that year, he was . . .
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