Myanmar: Fear of torture or ill-treatment/health concern

Index Number: ASA 16/040/2007
Date Published: 16 November 2007
Categories: Asia And The Pacific, Myanmar

Reports have recently emerged of the arrest of Buddhist monk U Gambira on 4 November, as well as the arrests of his brother Aung Kyaw Kyaw and father Min Lwin in October. Their current whereabouts are not known. Well-known labour rights activist Su Su Nway was arrested just over a week later, on 13 November. She is detained in Insein Prison, Yangon.