The Myanmar junta has charged the former Yangon Region’s Social Affairs Minister U Naing Ngan Linn and wife Daw Khin Sandar Win, as well as 12 parliamentary representatives of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party, for supporting civil service personnel in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) and people’s defence forces with food and financial supplies, according to a report in the junta media.

The wife of the former minister was arrested on Hlaing River Road near Insein Prison in Yangon, accusing her of supplying rice for the people’s defence force of Mingalardon Township on 25 August.

Meanwhile, Daw Khin Myat Thu, the Pyithu Hluttaw representative of the NLD party, was also arrested on 21 August for allegedly acting as the head of a group for Yangon Region providing assistance to civil service personnel in the CDM.

Earlier, Daw Ni Ni May Myint, another NLD Hluttaw MP, was apprehended on 12 May as she was suspected of transferring cash to CDM staff members, according to the junta report on 26 August.

With the arbitrary arrest of state leaders, the junta regime has arrested and brought charges against many NLD party members, Hluttaw representatives, students, political activists and other civilians.