Veteran Myanmar democracy leader re-arrested

March 02, 2005 (Reuters) - A veteran Myanmar democracy activist who spent seven years in jail for distributing anti-government leaflets has been rearrested by military authorities, his colleagues said on Tuesday.

U Thu Wai, 73, who was set free from Yangon's notorious Insein jail in December as part of a mass prisoner release, was picked up along with two other opposition politicians in early February.

"I heard that U Thu Wai and Daw Cho Cho Kyaw Nyein were moved to Insein Prison but I just don't know why they were arrested or their situation now," Win Naing, a colleague of U Thu Wai, told Reuters.  He identified the third arrested activist as Shwe Ohn.

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