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

Aung San Suu Kyi Aung San Suu Kyi (born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and political activist. She was awarded the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. She served as State Counsellor of Myanmar and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Myanmar), Ministe ...

's personal attorney. Nyan Win served on the

National League for Democracy The National League for Democracy (, ; Abbreviation, abbr. NLD; Burmese abbr. ဒီချုပ်) is a deregistered liberal democratic political party in Myanmar (formerly Burma). It became the country's ruling party after a landslide victo ...

'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 Kyaikkhami ( Mon: ; ; pronounced ; , formerly Amherst) is a resort town within Thanbyuzayat township in the Mon State of south-east Myanmar. The town is situated on a peninsula about south of Mawlamyine, the capital of Mon State. It is a pop ...

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on 20 November 1942 to parents Chin Pe and Daw Yi. After graduating with an

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from

Rangoon University The University of Yangon (also Yangon University; , ; formerly Rangoon College, University of Rangoon and Rangoon Arts and Sciences University), located in Kamayut, Yangon, is the oldest university in Myanmar's modern education system and the b ...

, he served as a High Court advocate from 1970 to 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 (, ; 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 which 330 are directly elected through the first-past-the ...

to represent the

Paung Township Paung Township (; ) is a township of Thaton District in the Mon State of Myanmar Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest S ...

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

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 () 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 Order Restoration Council from 1988 to 2003 ...

, where he contracted

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. Nyan Win was transferred to

Yangon General Hospital The Yangon General Hospital (YGH, ) is a major public hospital in a compound in Yangon, Myanmar. The 2,000-bed hospital consists of seven medical wards, three surgical wards, two trauma and orthopaedic wards, and 28 specialist departments for inp ...

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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