One of Myanmar's biggest hip-hop artists has been detained for criticising the military government on Facebook, the BBC has confirmed.
EDnews informs via BBC that Byu Har criticised the junta's handling of nationwide power outages that have hit Myanmar in the past months.
The country has struggled to secure supplies for gas-fired electricity plants since the 2021 coup which ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's civilian government.
His detention is just the latest in the regime's crackdown on critics.
Byu Har, who had been based in Yangon, had called the electricity minister "a fool" and "incompetent" in a video posted to Facebook on Tuesday night.
"During the past five years under the old lady, we had 24 hours of electricity, not only that, the electricity bill was [going] down," he said referring the former democratically-elected leader Ms Suu Kyi.
The rapper used incendiary language to refer to the junta's leaders and also included his home address in the video's caption, inviting them to arrest him if they took issue with the post.
The musician was detained in Yangon's North Dagon Township by police on Wednesday before friends and family lost contact with him, sources familiar with the incident told the BBC.
Prior to his arrest, the rapper had received several warnings from authorities for producing music critical of the junta, they added.
