Burmese journalist Mratt Kyaw Thu arrived in the Spanish capital Madrid on Tuesday, where he is set to seek asylum after managing to escape Myanmar, laprensalatina reported.

Mratt, who has worked as a contributor for EFE in Myanmar since October 2018, traveled to Madrid from Frankfurt, Germany, where he had spent weeks in refugee accommodation following a 10-day quarantine.

He had initially been scheduled to fly to Madrid with a layover in Frankfurt, but decided to try for asylum in Germany given his contacts there.

German authorities denied him asylum, deferring the case to Spain as per European Union migration protocol.