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Foreigners among 6,000 prisoners to be freed under Myanmar junta’s annual amnesty
there was no indication that Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s ousted civilian leader, was among those pardoned. open image in gallery Family members wait to welcome released prisoners from Insein ...
Japanese filmmaker whose arrest caused international outcry backs calls for Aung San Suu Kyi’s release
A Japanese filmmaker sentenced to 10 years in jail in Myanmar has backed calls for Aung San Suu Kyi to be freed. Toru Kubota, ...
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Head of Aung San Suu Kyi’s former Oxford college backs calls for her release
The head of Aung San Suu Kyi’s former Oxford college has backed calls from three former foreign secretaries for her to be freed. Lady Elish Angiolini, the principal of St Hugh’s College ...
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Foreigners among 6,000 prisoners to be freed under Myanmar junta’s annual amnesty
there was no indication that Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s ousted civilian leader, was among those pardoned. Ms Suu Kyi, who has been held incommunicado since the coup, is serving a 27-year ...
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Ex-minister who witnessed ‘horrible’ Myanmar military violence joins calls for Aung San Suu Kyi’s release
Her fall from grace is explored in a new Independent TV documentary, Cancelled: The rise and fall of Aung San Suu Kyi, which explores her life and the plight of Myanmar. Mr Scully, the ...
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Myanmar’s government-in-exile says Suu Kyi’s detention a stark reminder of brutal junta rule: ‘Inhumane’
The release of Aung San Suu Kyi and around 20,000 fellow political prisoners will be the most crucial step towards ending the conflict in Myanmar, the country’s government-in-exile has said.
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Rats and ‘horrible black tarantulas’: Sean Turnell’s 20 months in prison in Myanmar
That fall from grace is now the subject of a documentary on Independent TV called Cancelled: The rise and fall of Aung San Suu Kyi, charting her life including her political emergence in the 1980s ...
China says it brokered a ceasefire between Myanmar army and an ethnic rebel group
China says it has brokered a ceasefire between Myanmar’s military government and a major ethnic rebel group in the country’s ...