A protester holds a picture of deposed Myanmar chief Aung San Suu Kyi as fellow protesters march round Mandalay, Myanmar on Monday, Feb. 8, 2021. A protest in opposition to Myanmar’s one-week-old army authorities swelled quickly Monday morning as opposition to the coup grew more and more daring. (AP Photo)
Myanmar has been in uproar since Suu Kyi was deposed in a February 1 coup, with near-daily protests and a nationwide civil disobedience motion.
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The trial of ousted Myanmar chief Aung San Suu Kyi will start subsequent week, her lawyer informed AFP Monday.
Myanmar has been in uproar since Suu Kyi was deposed in a February 1 coup, with near-daily protests and a nationwide civil disobedience motion, and nearly 850 civilians killed in accordance to a neighborhood monitoring group.
The Nobel laureate has been hit with a string of legal costs together with flouting coronavirus restrictions throughout final 12 months’s election marketing campaign and possessing unlicensed walkie-talkies.
“We will get testimonies from plaintiff and witnesses ranging from subsequent listening to,” scheduled for Monday June 14, lawyer Min Min Soe said Monday after meeting the detained Suu Kyi in the capital Naypyidaw.
“She asked all (people) to stay in good health,” Min Min Soe added.
Suu Kyi’s legal professionals have met together with her simply twice because the junta positioned her underneath home arrest, with weeks of delays to her authorized case and her legal professionals struggling to achieve entry to their shopper.
Myanmar’s junta has additionally threatened to dissolve her political celebration the National League for Democracy, which swept elections in 2020, over alleged voter fraud.
An AFP reporter stated there was a heavy police presence across the Naypyidaw council compound, shut to the courtroom, with roadblocks alongside streets main to the world.
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