Two hundred prisoners transferred from Yangon’s Insein Prison to Ayeyarwady’s Myaungmya Prison

Sources close to the regime Department of Prisons told DVB that approximately 200 inmates, including an unknown number of political prisoners, were transferred from Yangon’s Insein Prison into Myaungmya Prison in Ayeyarwady Region on July 27.

“We learned that [200] prisoners with sentences of 10-15 years and above were taken from the Insein prison. We believe this wasn’t just a routine prison transfer. Political prisoners were included,” a source close to Insein Prison told DVB on the condition of anonymity. 

Myaungmya is located 56 km (35 miles) south of the Ayeyarwady Region capital Pathein and 183 km (114 miles) southwest of Yangon. The 200 inmates were moved in six buses with an escort by regime authorities. Family visits at Myaungmya Prison have been suspended following the transfer, according to sources.