Smuggled sketches offer glimpses into harsh Myanmar prisonFourteen sketches smuggled out of Myanmar’s Insein Prison offer a rare glimpse inside the country’s most notorious jailReutersIn one drawing, dozens of men sit crammed into a single room, hunched with their knees together, every inch of space occupied. A smuggled sketch shows people inside of Myanmar’s Insein prison with a written date July 13 last year in this undated picture. PRISON POPULATION SWELLSThe artist drew the prison sketches between April and July of last year. Nyi Nyi Htwe said he smuggled them out on his release to show friends, family and others the conditions inside. Nyi Nyi Htwe, who has joined an armed rebel group, said nearly two-thirds of his dormitory were sick with COVID symptoms last summer.

Source: Taipei Times April 07, 2022 22:08 UTC