Police file a second charge against Suu Kyi
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Internet blackout for second straight overnight to curb anti-coup uprising; junta promises election
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Monks on the march: Buddhist monks during a protest against the military coup in Yangon on Tuesday.
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Internet blackout for second straight overnight to curb anti-coup uprising; junta promises election
Myanmar’s deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi was hit with another charge on Tuesday, after the military imposed a second straight overnight Internet shutdown in an attempt to grind down an anti-coup uprising.
In the two weeks since the generals ousted Ms. Suu Kyi and put the civilian leader under house arrest in the administrative capital Naypyidaw, big cities and isolated village communities alike have been in open revolt.
Myanmar's deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi was hit with another charge on Tuesday, after the military imposed a second straight overnight internet shutdown in an attempt to grind down an anti-coup uprising.
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One of the nationalists at the court hearing in 2018. / Myo Min Soe / The Irrawaddy
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By Htun Htun 16 December 2020
YANGON A court in Yangon’s Insein Township has sentenced three supporters of the convicted assassin of a National League for Democracy (NLD) legal adviser to one year in prison with hard labor.
The three were among four nationalists who appeared at Yangon’s Northern District Court in February 2018 wearing T-shirts reading “Eat Well!” to show their support for the four men who were then suspects (and were later convicted) in the assassination of prominent lawyer U Ko Ni.