Burmese activist Tun Tun, who staged a solo protest on June 19 and made news headlines, was released from a mental hospital near Rangoon yesterday. Doctors have certified that he has no psychiatric problems.

Tun Tun, was arrested on July 7 by authorities and sent to the mental hospital.
He was first arrested on June 19, the birthday of Burmese democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, for staging a solo protest in front of the Rangoon city hall.

He was released after a day’s detention. However, Tun Tun, was re-arrested on the night of July 7, a historic day on which several student protestors were gunned-down in cold blood by the military in 1962. He was sent to Rwarthergyi mental hospital near Rangoon.

Authorities did not give any reason for Tun Tun’s re-arrest but speculation was rife that it could have been for his loud prayer made on the day at the Shwe Dagon Pagoda for the fallen student protestors of July 7, 1962.

After 33 days in the mental hospital, doctors last night declared that Tun Tun is in perfect mental health. He was taken to his home town, Nyaungdon, in Irrawaddy division in lower Burma by his mother and wife.

“He just left for home. He had lunch with us and uncle [U Win Naing] has gone to drop them,” Amyotharyee U Win Naing’s wife told Mizzima confirming that Tun Tun, who visited U Win Naing and friends in Rangoon this morning, is in sound mental health.