Myanmar: Former British ambassador Vicky Bowman faces trial by military junta
Vicky Bowman and her husband held in jail in Myanmar over alleged immigration offences that activists fear are ‘political payback’
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Vicky Bowman and her husband held in jail in Myanmar over alleged immigration offences that activists fear are ‘political payback’
Bowman and her husband face up to five years in prison for breaking immigration laws.
The wooden relief carving by Kim Aris will be raffled off; over $100,000 was raised in the first 24 hours of the campaign.
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In Myanmar, even though open protests are not common any more as they were after the February 2021 military coup, the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) is still in action. A lot of state employees are no longer actively working in their positions. A small number of student activists and workers still protest, though in guerrilla style to avoid being arrested. On 24 August 2022, the military regime detained Vicky Bowman, a former British ambassador to Myanmar, and her husband Htein Lin, a Burmese artist and former political prisoner, on immigration-related allegations.