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Vickie Bowman and her husband were detained for sending information to an activist group and others opposed to military rule, a senior military official said.
The British Embassy says it is ""concerned by the arrest of a British woman in Myanmar"", while it is believed the couple are being sent to Insein prison, the notorious jail on the outskirts of the commercial capital of Yangon where many political prisoners are held.
Vickie Bowman and her husband were detained for sending information to an activist group and others opposed to military rule, a senior military official said.
The former British ambassador to Myanmar has been detained in the Southeast Asian country, sources have told Reuters, as the UK announces new sanctions.
Authorities in Myanmar have detained Britain’s former ambassador to the Southeast Asian nation, where a military junta seized power last year, three people