New York: American journalist Danny Fenster, who was released after almost six months in prison in Myanmar who was ruled by the military, arrived in the United States on Tuesday.
Fenster, who was sentenced last week to 11 years of hard work, was handed over on Monday to former Bill Diplomat AS Richardson, who helped negotiate liberation.
He is one of the more than 100 journalists, media officials or publishers who have been detained since the military overthrew the Nobel Laureate government elected Aung San Suu Kyi in February.
Fenster said he felt physically ok when he went through Qatar on his way home.
“It’s just privacy and the same things that come with all the forms of detention,” Hadded in the bearded, in Baggy’s drawstring pants and knitting hat, told reporters after landing in Doha.
“The longer dragging, the more worried that it will never end.” While imprisoned, Fenster told his lawyer that he believed that he had Covid-19, even though the prison authorities denied that.
Monday night, he said he was not starving or beaten when he was arrested and “happy to be on the way home”.
A few hours later, he landed in New York, and his mother hurried to hug him as he got out of the car.
Fenster, Editor Managing Frontier Online Magazine Myanmar, was sentenced to Friday to disseminate false or inflammatory information, contacted illegal organizations and violated Visa regulations.
A few days before his belief, he learned that he had been charged with additional violations that placed him at a risk of life sentence.
“We are very grateful that Danny will eventually be able to connect with the person he loves that has advocated for him so far, against a great opportunity,” Richardson, former Governor of New Mexico and Ambassador at the United Nations, said in a statement on Monday.
Fenster has been detained because he was arrested at Yangon International Airport on May 24.
“We are very happy that Danny has been released and is on his way home – we can’t wait to hold it on our arms,” ​​his family said in a statement.
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Definitely charges against fenster were never clear, but many cases of prosecution seemed to depend on proving that he was employed by other online news sites that were booked closed this year during the crackdown in the media that followed the military takeover.
Fenster used to work for sites but left the work last year.
Originally from the Detroit area, Fenster has a master’s degree in creative writing from Wayne State University and works for a newspaper in Louisiana before moving to Southeast Asia, according to Detroit deadline, news sites are sometimes contributed.
His brother, Bryan Fenster, said he was very interested in the fate of the people of the Rohingya Muslim minority, hundreds of thousands of them escaped Myanmar during the Brutal Counterinsurgency campaign by the Army in 2017.
General in Myanmar “assured that it was not worthy of being occupied to Danny,” US rep.
Andy Levin from Michigan, who represents the smallest family in Congress, to the Detroit WWJ radio station.
“If they make it and something really happened to him, we will never forget it.
We will never forgive them.”