NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar correspondent Mratt Kyaw Thu will arrive in Madrid on Tuesday to ask for asylum after fleeing the military junta in Yangon, said the Spanish news agency EFE, which he worked for.

Yangon, Yangon division: In this file photo taken on December 18, 2017 Myanmar reporter Mratt Kyaw Thu poses at his office in Yangon. Burmese journalist Mratt Kyaw Thu, persecuted by his country's military junta, will travel to Spain on June 1, 2021 to seek asylum after spending four weeks in a detention center in Germany, the agency he was contributing to reported. AFP FILE PHOTO
Yangon, Yangon division: In this file photo taken on December 18, 2017 Myanmar reporter Mratt Kyaw Thu poses at his office in Yangon. Burmese journalist Mratt Kyaw Thu, persecuted by his country's military junta, will travel to Spain on June 1, 2021 to seek asylum after spending four weeks in a detention center in Germany, the agency he was contributing to reported. AFP FILE PHOTO

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