Nyan Win ( my, ဉာဏ်ဝင်း; 20 November 1942 – 20 July 2021) was a Burmese politician and

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's personal attorney. Nyan Win served on the

National League for Democracy The National League for Democracy ( my, အမျိုးသား ဒီမိုကရေစီ အဖွဲ့ချုပ်, ; Abbreviation, abbr. NLD; Burmese abbr. ဒီချုပ်) is a liberal democratic political party in Myanm ...

's Central Executive Committee and was a party spokesman. He also served as a legal advisor to the NLD.

Career

Nyan Win was born in Kyaikkami,

Mon State Mon State ( my, မွန်ပြည်နယ်, ; mnw, တွဵုရးဍုင်မန်, italics=no) is an administrative division of Myanmar. It lies between Kayin State to the east, the Andaman Sea to the west, Bago Region to the ...

on 20 November 1942 to parents Chin Pe and

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Yi. After graduating with an

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from

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, he served as a High Court advocate from 1970-1973, and worked as a government prosecutor until his retirement in November 1988. Nyan Win won the seat in the

Pyithu Hluttaw The Pyithu Hluttaw ( my, ပြည်သူ့ လွှတ်တော်, ; House of Representatives) is the ''de jure'' lower house of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, the bicameral legislature of Myanmar (Burma). It consists of 440 members, of whic ...

to represent the

Paung Township Paung Township ( my, ပေါင်မြို့နယ်; mnw, ပွိုၚ်ဍုၚ်ပံၚ်) is a township of Thaton District in the Mon State of Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: W ...

Constituency No. 1 in the

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, winning about 55% of the votes (20,032 valid votes).

Arrest and death

In the wake of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état on 1 February, Nyan Win was detained by the

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. He was accused of "inciting public disorder" and kept in the

Insein Prison Insein Prison ( my, အင်းစိန်ထောင်) is located in Yangon Division, near Yangon (Rangoon), the old capital of Myanmar (formerly Burma). From 1988 to 2011 it was run by the military junta of Myanmar, named the State Law and ...

, where he contracted

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. Nyan Win was transferred to

Yangon General Hospital The Yangon General Hospital (YGH, my, ရန်ကုန် ပြည်သူ့ ဆေးရုံကြီး) is a major public hospital in a compound in Yangon, Myanmar. The 2,000-bed hospital consists of seven medical wards, three surgical ...

in mid-July after his condition worsened, but died within a week on 20 July 2021, at the age of 78.

References

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