Family Hopes for Return of US Journalist Detained in Myanmar

BANGKOK - The mother of a journalist detained in Myanmar says she and the family “just want him here” in Michigan.

“It was a total visceral reaction, gut, visceral, numbing, nauseating, tearful, helpless feeling,” Rose Fenster said, describing how she felt when learning about the detention of her son Danny Fenster. The 37-year-old managing editor of Frontier Myanmar was detained at Yangon International Airport on Monday as he was preparing to board a flight to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, en route to the Detroit area to see his family. “It's important we get this resolved as quickly as possible. We're on Day 5, so time is crucial. We want him out of there,” Bryan Fenster, Danny's older brother, said during an interview Friday at their parents' home in Huntington Woods, Michigan.