Myint Naing ( my, မြင့်နိုင်) is a Burmese politician and former

political prisoner A political prisoner is someone imprisoned for their politics, political activity. The political offense is not always the official reason for the prisoner's detention. There is no internationally recognized legal definition of the concept, al ...

who currently serves as

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Sagaing Region Sagaing Region ( my, စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး, ; formerly Sagaing Division) is an administrative region of Myanmar, located in the north-western part of the country between latitude 21° 30' north and lon ...

and previously served as an

Amyotha Hluttaw The Amyotha Hluttaw ( my, အမျိုးသားလွှတ်တော်, ; House of Nationalities) is the ''de jure'' upper house of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, the bicameral legislature of Myanmar (Burma). It consists of 224 members, o ...

member of parliament for

Constituency № 3. In the 1990 Burmese general election, he was elected as an Pyithu Hluttaw MP, winning a majority of 30,628 (76% of the votes), but was never allowed to assume his seat.

Early life and education

Myint Naing graduated with a medical degree ( MBBS) from the Mandalay Institute of Medicine in 1981.

Political career

He was arrested in September 1990 and sentenced to 25 years under the Burmese Penal Code's Article 122. He actively took part together with his colleagues in the famous

Saffron Revolution The Saffron Revolution ( my, ရွှေဝါရောင်တော်လှန်ရေး) was a series of economic and political protests and demonstrations that took place during August, September, and October 2007 in Myanmar. The pro ...

. In 2012, he was elected as member of House of Nationalities following the

2012 Myanmar by-elections The 2012 Myanmar by-elections were held on 1 April 2012. The elections were held to fill 48 vacant parliamentary seats. Three of those remained vacant as polling in three Kachin constituencies was postponed. There was no plan to fill the addit ...

. In the 2015 general election, Myint Naing ran for

Sagaing Region Hluttaw Sagaing Region Hluttaw ( my, စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီးလွှတ်တော်) is the legislature of the Burmese region of Sagaing Region. It is a unicameral body, consisting of 101 members, including 7 ...

and was re-elected. In 2016, he was appointed as Chief Minister of Sagaing Region by the

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with the recommendation of

. In the wake of the

2021 Myanmar coup d'état A coup d'état in Myanmar began on the morning of 1 February 2021, when democratically elected members of the country's ruling party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), were deposed by the Tatmadaw—Myanmar's military—which then ve ...

on 1 February, Myint Maung was detained by the Myanmar Armed Forces.

References

Members of the House of Nationalities National League for Democracy politicians Prisoners and detainees of Myanmar Burmese physicians 1951 births Living people People from Sagaing Region University of Medicine, Mandalay alumni {{Burma-politician-stub