Myanmar: Health concern/ torture and ill-treatment
Myanmar: Health concern/ torture and ill-treatment
Index Number: ASA 16/015/2008Date Published: 17 June 2008
Categories: Myanmar
Prisoners of conscience Myo Yan Naung Thein and U Ohn Than need urgent medical attention. Myo Yan Naung Thein is partly paralysed after being tortured, and is held in solitary confinement in poor conditions. U Ohn Than has contracted cerebral malaria, which if untreated, is almost always fatal.