High-Profile Ethnic Rakhine Political Prisoners Among Those Freed to Mark Myanmar Union Day
Dr Aye Maung in 2014 / The Irrawaddy
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By The Irrawaddy 12 February 2021
YANGON Prominent ethnic Rakhine politician Dr. Aye Maung and writer Wai Hin Aung, who were sentenced to long jail sentences for high treason, were freed on Friday as part of the military regime’s release of inmates, including political prisoners, to mark Union Day.
Their relatives confirmed to The Irrawaddy that the two were released from Insein Prison in Yangon at around 11 a.m. on Friday.
“Dr. Aye Maung and Ko Wai Hin Aung have been released. I have spoken with Dr. Aye Maung directly over the phone,” said U Aung Than Wai, a friend of Dr. Aye Maung.
Saudi Woman Activist Freed After Nearly 3 Years In Jail, Family Says By Anuj Chopra
02/10/21 AT 8:04 PM
Saudi authorities on Wednesday released prominent women s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul after nearly three years in detention, her family said, as the kingdom comes under renewed US pressure over its human rights record.
Hathloul, 31, was arrested in May 2018 with about a dozen other women activists just weeks before the historic lifting of a decades-long ban on female drivers, a reform they had long campaigned for, triggering a torrent of international criticism.
The release of the activist, who is still under probation and is barred from leaving Saudi Arabia, sparked euphoria among her siblings who had launched a vigorous campaign overseas for her freedom in a major embarrassment for the kingdom s rulers.
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A resident of Azerbaijan’s Fuzuli district, Shahin Guliyev, informed the local police department on February 4, 2021 about the disappearance of his brother Mehman Guliyev and other residents of the district, Ilgar Ahmadov and Mustagim Alasgarov, a source in the Jabrayil District Prosecutor’s Office told Trend.
According to the source, a preliminary investigation based on the above information established on February 7, 2021 that a VAZ-2106 car with the state registration number 99 NH 623 belonging to Ahmadov hit an anti-tank mine in the Jabrayil district’s liberated Nuzgar village (from Armenian occupation during a 44-day war from late Sept. through early Nov.2020).
Hawke s Bay: Truckie stuck in crashed cab while power company makes live lines safe
21 Jan, 2021 03:04 AM
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Emergency services waited to free the trapped driver who remained in the cab until the downed powerlines could be switched off. Photo / Rachel Wise
Emergency services waited to free the trapped driver who remained in the cab until the downed powerlines could be switched off. Photo / Rachel Wise
Hawkes Bay Today
By: Gianina Schwanecke
A truck driver phoned his family, smoked a few cigarettes and played Tetris on his phone while waiting to be freed after he was stuck in his crashed cab while a power company ensured power lines draped over his truck were safe.