Cops scuffle with hardline monk’s followers

Up in arms: Police clashing with Buddhist monks while they take part in a protest in support of Wirathu outside Insein prison in Yangon. — Reuters

Police scuffled with dozens of followers of Buddhist nationalist monk Ashin Wirathu at a demonstration calling for him to be put on trial more than two months after he handed himself in to face sedition charges.

Protesters, many of them monks, gathered outside the Insein Prison in Myanmar’s main city of Yangon yesterday, where Wirathu has been held since November last year.