It was February 2015. That morning me and my husband had a tea shop near our house. I told him I was going downtown to buy some

groceries and he gave me 10,000 chat. As soon as I got off the bus, a man started bothering me.

He grabbed my arm. I tried to push him away, then two policemen

appeared. They let the man go but they arrested me. It's a typical day in downtown Yangon and I'm on the exact same stretch of road where that

young woman was arrested. I'm Thine Le Wynne and you're listening to Myanmar's sex vote on the BBC World Service.

They asked me, have you been doing this kind of work for long?

I was like what kind of work? said working as a sex worker how long have you

been doing it I said no I'm from a good family they went through my bag and

took the money my husband had given me.

When he got to the police station and explained it was his money,

they asked him to prove it, but of course he couldn't.

So they put me in a cell.

Now it's really alarming to think that same thing could happen to me, especially in a

country with a strong female leader like Anson Suu Kyi. Yet this young woman

was arrested just for being a woman in the wrong place at the wrong time.

On the afternoon of February the 6th, I appeared in court and was sent to insane prison in Yangon. It was like

being in hell. I can't explain how terrible it is. I ended up staying there for 55 days.

She was arrested because of the law whose origins date back to the colonial times.

The 1949 Suppression of Prostitution Act declares that bold and shameless behavior can lead to a fine and imprisonment.

My husband's relatives still don't want to talk to us. The neighbors look at us as if there's something wrong with us. It was horrible. We felt helpless.

Just before sentencing, I was really depressed and upset.

I even thought of taking pills, thinking that if I die it would all be over.

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