Naypyitaw: A key aide to Myanmar’s detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested on Friday as coup garnered outrage across the world.
Win Htein confirmed his arrest in a brief interview with a leading news agency, saying that he was being taken by police officers in a car from Yangon to the capital, Naypyidaw.
The arrest came after the streets of Myanmar’s biggest city were filled for a third night with people voicing their opposition to the coup.
About 70 parliament members of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) also defied the military on Thursday, as they convened a symbolic parliament at their compound in the capital, Naypyidaw, signing a pledge that they would serve the people.
Win Htein, considered Suu Kyi’s right-hand man, “was arrested from his daughter’s house where he was staying at midnight (in Yangon),” said Kyi Toe, a press officer for the NLD.
The 79-year-old NLD stalwart is a longtime political prisoner, who has spent long stretches of time in and out of detention for campaigning against military rule.
