 A veteran Myanmar democracy activist who spent seven years in jail for distributing anti-government leaflets has been rearrested by military authorities, his colleagues said on Tuesday. U Thu Wai, 73, who was set free from Yangon's notorious Insein jail in December as part of a mass prisoner release, was picked up along with two other opposition politicians in early February. "I heard that U Thu Wai and Daw Cho Cho Kyaw Nyein were moved to Insein Prison but I just don't know why they were arrested or their situation now," Win Naing, a colleague of U Thu Wai, told Reuters. He identified the third arrested activist as Shwe Ohn. Myanmar's secretive military government has made no public pronouncements regarding the arrests. One of most respected democracy activists in the former Burma, which has been under military rule for more than four decades, Thu Wai has been imprisoned several times for his political activities. |