Myanmar police scuffle with nationalist monk's followers

Police detain a nationalist supporter while he takes part in a protest in support of the jailed nationalist right wing monk Wirathu outside Insein prison in Yangon, Myanmar, January 16, 2021. REUTERS/Shwe Paw Mya Tin

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar police scuffled on Saturday 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, where Wirathu has been held since November last year.