US journalist held in Yangon prison notorious for torture

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) is alarmed and outraged by US journalist Danny Fenster’s arrest he was about to leave Myanmar on 24 April and calls for his immediate and unconditional release. Colleagues think he is being held incommunicado in Yangon’s Insein prison, where journalists are often mistreated and tortured. The managing editor of the news magazine Frontier Myanmar, Fenster was arrested for no apparent reason at Yangon International Airport as he was about to board a flight to the United State

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