In Obo Prison of Mandalay, the prison staff subjected to violence against the political women-prisoners, as well as those who assisted them and their family members were being monitored.
It is known from a person helping political prisoners said that on the 3rd and 4th of February, a political women-prisoner was beaten and insulted in Obo Prison, and there was no way to resolve the dispute. In addition, the male-staff of the prison entered the women’s dormitories and beat them.
The mother of a political activist said that as soon as we heard the news, we went to the prison because we were worried about our daughter. We were told that the prison was closed, and we couldn’t get in contact with them. Later, we found out that my daughter had been transferred to the prison. From the time my daughter was arrested, she was stabbed with a knife during the interrogation. In the taking place of the prison in February, I heard that my daughter was seriously injured. I still haven’t been allowed to see my daughter. We don’t dare to stay at home either. They come and monitor our house from time to time”.
It is known that about 150 male-staff of the prison entered the women’s dormitories and beat them by use of shields, slingshots, iron rods, bamboo joints, and truncheons. As a result, there are 6 people with broken heads, 2 people with severed ears, 3 people with injured near the eyes by slingshots, 1 person with a broken arm, 1 person with a broken nose, and 1 person who had broken glasses that entered in his eye, as well as many other injuries.
“On February 3rd and 4th, our female comrades were brutally beaten by about 150 male-staff of the prison, and more than 100 female political prisoners were injured. This is not a small matter. It was the male-staff who intervened and beat them,” said a female member of the Mandalay Strike Force Committee.
A person assisting political prisoners said that the Obo-prison authorities are not providing medical treatment to injured political female-prisoners, as well as are also transferring them to another prisons, consigning solitary confinement, and closing prison entrances.
On February 12, the National Unity Government (NUG) had announced that more than 100 political activists were injured, 21 of those were seriously injured due to the violence in Obo-Prison.
“Women who were arrested for political reasons were subjected to sexual assaults, injections of hard objects, of candles and of ice sticks into the female genitals, as well as naked interrogations,” said by a female member of the Mandalay Strike Force Committee.