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Student activist Lin Lin led protests against Myanmar’s junta, defying the generals for months before being hunted down and caught. The demonstrations gradually fizzled out, but Lin Lin was determined to find a way to keep defiance against the junta at the top of people’s minds. Lin Lin said goodbye to her family and went underground in the commercial hub …

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A former British ambassador to Myanmar has been sentenced to a year in prison for failing to register her residence. The Myanmar government last week said Ms Bowman’s husband, Htein Lin, had been charged with abetting the failure to register the proper address. The Foreign Office said: “We will continue to support Ms Bowman and her family until their case …

Former UK ambassador to Myanmar Vicky Bowman and her husband, Myanmar artist Htein Lin, convicted over alleged immigration offences. Yangon/Taipei – Former British ambassador to Myanmar, Vicky Bowman, and her husband, Htein Lin, have been sentenced to one year in prison for immigration offences following a trial in Yangon, a diplomat with knowledge of the matter said. Bowman and her …

Vicky Bowman and her husband, Htein Lin, are reportedly under investigation for immigration law violations after their arrest in Yangon. Myanmar’s military authorities have detained the United Kingdom’s former ambassador to the country, and her husband, over alleged violations of immigration law. A spokesperson for the UK’s embassy in the country said they were “concerned by the arrest of a …