This handout from the Coalition Strike Committee -Dawei and Dawei Youth's Revolutionary Strike Committee taken and released on July 9, 2021 shows protesters making the three-finger salute during a demonstration against the military coup in a market in Dawei.- AFP
Authorities at the colonial-era jail have stopped sending prisoners to attend court hearings either at a special facility inside the jail or to courts in the city, Zayar Lwin, an activist and former political prisoner who was freed from Insein in April, told Reuters. Myanmar then reported 4,320 new Covid-19 infections with 64 more deaths on Friday evening according to a release from the Ministry of Health and Sports on Friday.