Family hopes for return of US journalist detained in Myanmar


Danny Fenster, an American journalist working for a news magazine in Myanmar has been detained by the authorities there. Frontier Myanmar says Danny Fenster, its managing editor, was detained at Yangon's airport as he was preparing to board a flight to Malaysia. - AP

BANGKOK, May 30 (AP): The mother of a journalist detained in Myanmar says she and the family "just want him here” in Michigan.

"It was a total visceral reaction, gut, visceral, numbing, nauseating, tearful, helpless feeling," Rose Fenster said, describing how she felt when learning about the detention of her son, Danny Fenster.

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