 Ye Htoon was under detention for the first time from 1962 to 1963 for alleged participation in the "7 July Upheaval".He was arrested again from November 1971 to July 1972 for his connection with Burmese expatriates and foreign firms, and action was taken against him the third time in January 1975 for participation in what has come to be known as the "U Thant crisis", student-led protests over the shabby treatment by the Ne Win government of the remains of U Thant which were crushed by the military government, when he was given a 10-year prison term.He was freed in July 1980 under the Government's Amnesty Order No.