Protest breaks out at prison in Myanmar's biggest city

Earlier this month, Myanmar freed more than 2,000 detainees from the prison, among them journalists and others who the ruling military said had been held on incitement charges for taking part in protests. - AFP

YANGON (Reuters): A protest erupted at a prison in Myanmar's commercial capital of Yangon on Friday (July 23) against what activists said was a worsening Covid-19 outbreak at the jail, which is used to hold opponents of February's military takeover.

It was one of the first protests of its kind since the Feb 1 coup in the South-East Asian country, where people across the country demonstrate daily against military rule.