When Australian academic Sean Turnell was suddenly arrested and imprisoned by the military government in Myanmar, his wife Ha Vu began an almost two-year fight to bring him home.
“At the beginning, I wasn’t so frightened. But the days became weeks, and then lawyers said the legal process to get Sean home might last six months,” recalls Sydney-based Ha.
Five days after the February 2021 military coup against the government in Myanmar, Sean found an anonymous email from a “secret friend” in his inbox. It warned
