With local help, Myanmar soccer player seeking asylum in Japan

A goalkeeper for Myanmar’s national soccer team is refusing to return home and seeking asylum with the help of Japanese ...
Nippon

Three Fingers for Freedom: Myanmarese Goalkeeper Pyae Lyan Aung’s Path to Asylum in Japan

Players call out to each other in Burmese as they race up and down a small field in the heart of Shinjuku. Pyae Lyan Aung, a former goalkeeper for Myanmar’s national soccer team, blocks a shot and ...
scmp.com

Myanmar goalkeeper Pyae Lyan Aung seeks refugee status in Japan after displaying three-fingered protest salute

A goalkeeper for Myanmar’s soccer team who raised a three-fingered salute in protest at the military coup in the country during a World Cup qualifying match in Japan on Thursday said he has chosen not ...
Radio France Internationale

Exiled, but no regrets for Myanmar footballer two years after protest

Tokyo (AFP) – Refugee goalkeeper Pyae Lyan Aung fears for his safety if he returns home to Myanmar but he says he has no regrets about raising an anti-junta salute before a game two years ago. The ...
Foreign Policy

Pyae Sone Aung

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