Topic: Kyaw Zaw Lwin
<div><p>A US activist freed by Myanmar returned home Friday to be reunited with his fiancee and called for the military regime to release thousands more prisoners.</p><p>Supporters cheered and offered congratulatory balloons as Kyaw Zaw Lwin, 40, who ...
<div><p>The United States has welcomed the release of one of its citizens in Myanmar but downplayed its significance as Washington presses the junta ahead of elections widely feared to be a sham.</p><p>Activists suspected the military regime's ...
<div><p>Military-ruled Myanmar on Thursday released a US rights activist jailed for fraud and forgery in a rare show of leniency from the junta ahead of elections this year.</p><p>Democracy advocate Kyaw Zaw Lwin was "thrilled" to be going ...
<div><p>A US rights activist freed in Myanmar is "thrilled" to be returning home but will need a medical check-up, his fiancee said Thursday after speaking to him.</p><p>The military-ruled nation released democracy advocate Kyaw Zaw Lwin, also known ...
Myanmar-born US citizen held in solitary confinement in Yangon after 12-day hunger strikeAn American jailed in Myanmar was placed in solitary confinement after ending a 12-day hunger strike, prompting the U.S. Embassy to request his return to a standard prison cell ...
Myanmar-American weak in first court appearance after hunger strike, lawyer saysA jailed U.S. citizen who was on hunger strike for more than a week in military-ruled Myanmar attended his trial Friday looking thin and weak, his lawyer said.Myanmar authorities accused ...
US Embassy seeks Suu Kyi legal team to represent detained Myanmar-AmericanTwo lawyers for detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi have agreed to defend a Myanmar-born American jailed for allegedly planning to incite unrest in the military-run country, the lawyers said ...
The United States has protested to Myanmar's military government over the alleged mistreatment of an American citizen held on suspicion of inciting unrest, the US embassy in Yangon said Friday.Myanmar-born Kyaw Zaw Lwin, alias Nyi Nyi Aung, was detained on ...
US Embassy given access to Myanmar-born American citizen held for 3 weeksThe U.S. Embassy says it has been allowed to visit a Myanmar-born American who has been held in the country for the past three weeks but refused to divulge any ...