Another senior Suu Kyi aide arrested in Myanmar

FILE PHOTO: Win Htein, one of the leaders of National League for Democracy party, arrives to attend opening ceremony of 21st Century Panglong conference in Naypyitaw, Myanmar May 24, 2017. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun/File Photo

(Reuters) - Another leading figure in Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party, Win Htein, told Reuters on Friday that he had been arrested in the aftermath of this week's coup even as the U.N. Security Council called for detainees to be freed.

Win Htein, 79, a stalwart of Suu Kyi and a long time political prisoner during decades campaigning to end army rule, told Reuters by phone that he was being taken by police officers in a car from Yangon to the capital, Naypyidaw.