Turnell (L) and Australian chargé d'Affaires in Myanmar Angela Corcoran pictured after Turnell's release from Insein Prison in Yangon. (AFP)

Turnell tells of jail squalor, torture fears

An Australian economist released last week after nearly two years in a Myanmar jail on Tuesday told of interrogations in leg irons, squalor and the sounds of screams from tortured cellmates.

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