224:. She reported being abused and sexually harassed by prison staff during this sentence, stating that "under the prison chief, U Win Myint, prisoners sentenced for rape were kept next to the women’s building... Prison staff and these prisoners would come and peep at us while we took our baths." She was released in 2003. In 2005, she married Kyaw Min Yu. At around the same time, she joined the newly formed
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244:) broke out in Yangon in response to increasing fuel and commodity prices. As a part of the protests, Nilar Thein organized a march of roughly 500 people to protest government policies. When police began seeking the organizers of the protest, Nilar Thein went into hiding. Her husband had already been arrested on the night of 21 August and sent to
274:, protesting the Burmese government's treatment of women and children. In it, she asks, "When the government itself is the abuser of human rights and the perpetrator of rape and other forms of gender-based violence, who will protect the victims? Who will end their tragedy? Who will secure the joyful reunion of mothers with their children?"
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and were concerned that her health might be deteriorating. In
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294:, and ten other activists on four counts of "illegally using electronic media" and one count of "forming an illegal organization". At that time, all fourteen were serving 65-year sentences at Thayet prison.
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