Myanmar ex-information minister arrested, says junta

Ye Htut, then Myanmar's Minister of Information talks to the media after meetings at the president's office in Naypyidaw on October 31, 2014. Myanmar's former information minister has been arrested and charged with encouraging dissent against the military, the junta said on Sunday, October 29, 2023, the latest in a series of high-profile arrests. - AFP

BANGKOK (AFP): Myanmar's former information minister has been arrested and charged with encouraging dissent against the military, the junta said Sunday, the latest in a series of high-profile arrests.

In recent months the military, who have faced armed resistance since seizing power in a 2021 coup, have detained a number of trade and commerce officials as the civil conflict batters Myanmar's already struggling economy.