Women report brutal treatment by Myanmar junta


Teachers in uniform at a civil disobedience movement demonstration against the coup in Dooplaya district in Myanmar's Karen state, May 13. Former female prisoners say women experience sexual- and gender-based violence while detained by the military. – AFP pic, May 14, 2021.

BEATEN, kicked in the groin and threatened with sexual violence – a young Myanmar teenager detained by the junta’s security forces has described the treatment suffered by some women and girls behind bars.

Shwe Yamin Htet, 17, and her mother were arrested on April 14 in Yangon, Myanmar’s commercial capital, which has been blanketed with heavy security since the military seized power in a coup.


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