FORTY prisoners have tested positive for Covid-19 in Myanmar’s main jail where some of the thousands of anti-coup protesters who have been arrested by the junta are being held, BBC Burmese language news reported, citing a prison official.
Authorities at the colonial-era Insein jail had stopped sending prisoners to attend court hearings either at a special facility inside the jail or to courts in the city, Zayar Lwin, an activist and former political prisoner who was freed from Insein in April, said.
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