YANGON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

The lawyer for an American journalist detained almost five months in military-ruled Myanmar says he is being prosecuted for an offense allegedly carried out by a news service for which he had stopped working more than half-a-year previously

An American journalist being held in prison in Myanmar told his lawyer Thursday that he believes he has caught COVID-19, but prison authorities deny he is infected. Danny Fenster was detained at Yangon International Airport on May 24 as he was trying to board a flight to go to the Detroit area in the United States to see his family. Fenster has been charged with incitement for which he could be sentenced to up to three years’ imprisonment.

It's been nearly two weeks since Danny Fenster was detained by military in Myanmar.

With their son gone, Rose and Buddy have been doing all they can to at least raise awareness on Danny’s situation.

With each passing day, there’s growing concern about the well-being of Danny Fenster, a Huntington Woods man who was detained in Myanmar where he has been working as a journalist.

Danny Fenster is a Berkley High School graduate working as a journalist in war-torn Myanmar.

Danny Fenster, who went to Wayne State University, was detained at Yangon International Airport as he was preparing to board a flight to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

An American journalist working for a news magazine in Myanmar was detained Monday by the authorities there, his employers said. Frontier Myanmar, which publishes in both English and Burmese and also online, said on Twitter that Danny Fenster, its managing editor, was detained at Yangon International Airport as he was preparing to board a flight to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It said the magazine did not know why Fenster was detained and had not been able to contact him, but it understood that he had been taken to Insein Prison in Yangon, which over decades has housed thousands of political prisoners.