Another senior Suu Kyi aide arrested
YANGON: Another leading figure in Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party, Win Htein, said yesterday he had been arrested in the aftermath of this week’s coup, even as the UN Security Council called for detainees to be freed.
Win Htein (79), a stalwart of Suu Kyi and a longtime political prisoner during decades of campaigning to end army rule, told Reuters by phone he was being taken by police officers in a car from Yangon to the capital, Naypyidaw.
He did not say what charges he could face.
‘‘They are gentlemen so I can pick up the phone,’’ he said.
‘‘We have been treated badly continuously for a long time. I have never been scared of them because I have done nothing wrong my entire life.’’