Days after Arakan State NLD chairman U San Shwe Tun being released from Sittwe prison in Arakan, western Burma, junta authorities rearrested him.

“The authorities rearrested him from his home on 26 November, 26 but the reason for the arrest is still unknown,” a colleague of his said.

U San Shwe Tun was released from Sittwe prison on November 5 along with fellow NLD leader U Aung Ban Tha after serving a three-year jail term.

The two were first arrested by the Burmese military authorities in 2005, on accusations of holding foreign currency, mainly Indian rupees.

U San Shwe Tun denied the allegation, but a military court in Sittwe sentenced them to three years in prison.

U Aung Ban Tha was not arrested again this time, as he was traveling away from his home in Sittwe, a colleague of U San Shwe Tun’s said.

The military authorities have not given out the reason why U San Shwe Tun was rearrested, or where he is being detained.