'Please Donate My Parcel To A Monk', The Detained Protest Leader Told Wife

When Ma Than Than Maw, the wife of the detained protest leader Ko Htin Kyaw, visited him in Insein prison hospital yesterday to give him a prison parcel (a small packet containing a few personal belongings and medicines), he refused. Instead, he asekd her to donate it to one of the monks.

Ko Htin Kyaw has been in detention since 25 August and began a hunger strike on 30 November, calling for the release of all political prisoners. Known for his straightforward manners and characters, the leader of the fuel protest in August, Ko Htin Kyaw has been a huge pain in the neck for the junta for causing too much public interest in his case as they are trying to charge him according to section 505(b) of the penal code, which forbids causing public alarm and inciting offences against the state or public tranquility and carries a maximum prison sentence of two years.

Also on hunger strike with Ko Htin Kyaw in Insein prison are Ko Myo Thant aka John Northar from Human Rights Promoters and Defenders Network and Zaw Lin Aung, a student from University of Rangoon.
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Original source: DVB Aye Nai