Anonymous ID: ddea20 April 7, 2021, 10:43 a.m. No.13378540   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8932

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https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/05/asia/myanmar-military-arrests-release-cnn-intl/index.html

Myanmar's junta releases 8 of 11 people arrested after communicating with CNN

At least eight of 11 people who were detained after communicating with CNN journalists in Myanmar were released on Monday, according to three sources close to those detained, who spoke on condition of anonymity over fears of reprisal.

CNN is the first international media organization to be given permission to enter the Southeast Asian nation since the military unseated the civilian government in a coup on February 1 and began waging a brutal clampdown on pro-democracy protesters, which has left more than 550 people dead, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, an advocacy group based in neighboring Thailand.

The CNN team is reporting with the permission of the military and is being escorted by the military, which sent six trucks carrying soldiers to monitor the team on its first day on the ground, and is sending several "minders" with the crew everywhere it goes.

The CNN team was invited to tour the Ten Miles bazaar in Yangon's Insein Township on Friday. There, they were approached by residents who wished to be interviewed, including two women flashing the three-finger salute, which has become a symbol of the protest movement against the military junta.

The pair were arrested by a group of security officials within three to five minutes of the CNN team leaving the area, according to eyewitnesses. The women work at a shop in the market and were taken to the Shwe Pyi Thar Interrogation Center, sources close to the women said.