Nathan Maung, 44, editor-in-chief of the online news platform Kamayut Media, was detained on March 9 in a raid and freed on June 15. "The first three to four days were the worst," Nathan Maung told Reuters in a telephone interview from Virginia on Friday. "On the eighth day, a colonel came, he removed the cloth blindfolding me," Mr Maung said. The colonel had told him that he was not charged with any crime and that he would be freed when the situation had calmed down, Mr Maung said. Kamayut Media stopped publication after his arrest, but Nathan Maung said he planned to resume his work.

Source: The Hindu June 27, 2021 09:45 UTC