Last week, soldiers released four medical staff who had been abducted from Agape Hospital in Hakha.
“They were not tortured in prison, but they were asked many questions,” said an anonymous source, who explained that the nurses had joined the nation’s Civil Disobedience Movement against the dictatorship.
Nurses Henny, Sianlun, Hniang Sung and J Mawi were taken from the private hospital on 21 May to the prison in the Chin State capital.
Dr Sicilia was also abducted but was released three days later because she isn’t a staff member at Agape.
With its maternity ward and surgical department, the hospital has provided crucial health services to residents of Hakha and the outlying areas after the coup.
But since 1 June, after the recent raid, Agape stopped accepting patients except for the outpatient department from Monday to Friday in the morning.
On 2 April, soldiers kidnapped two doctors and other staff from the building, exchanging them for regime officials abducted by a resistance group.