Thin Thin Aye aka Mie Mie
Leader of the 88 Generation Students Group. Worked for the NLD election campaigning in 1990.
Took part in the Saffron Revolution in 2007. Sentenced to 65 years with hard labour, the court refused her family permission to attend and subsequently handed down prison sentences to her lawyers for representing her.
On sentencing Mie Mie declared “We will never be frightened!” She has a degree in Zoology and is married with two children aged 17 and 12.
Her health is deteriorating in Kathar prison in Saggaing Division, a long way from her family in Rangoon.
