Mizzima News

New Delhi (Mizzima) - Detained pregnant woman activist, Kathy Aung, has reportedly suffered a miscarriage in Mandalay's Oh Bo prison, and with negligible care from the prison authorities, she is losing a lot of blood, family members said.

Bo Bo, brother of Kathy Aung, who on January 21 met his sister, told Mizzima that Kathy Aung had a miscarriage in the Oh Bo prison. The prison authorities have not taken her to hospital, but she is being visited by doctors.

"She is still losing blood from the miscarriage and is also suffering from skin diseases," Bo Bo, who along with his mother Thida Aung, visited his sister, told Mizzima.

Tun Tun, husband of Kathy Aung and a member of the All Burma Federation of Student Unions (ABFSU), who is on the run from authorities, told Mizzima from his hiding place that his wife was in the sixth month of pregnancy.

"When she was arrested, she was already in the first month of pregnancy," Tun Tun said.

Kathy Aung, 23, was arrested in September and charged with two counts each, under the Associating with Illegal Organizations and Emergency Immigration Acts and sentenced to 26 years of imprisonment on November 24, 2008 by the Oh Bo prison court.

However, her husband said, she was innocent and that the authorities had arrested her on his behalf.

"She is not involved in politics. All she does is tailoring at home but they [authorities] arrested her on my behalf," Tun Tun told Mizzima from his hiding place.