Leaders held as Myanmar declares 1-year emergency By YANG HAN in Hong Kong | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-02-02 07:22 Soldiers are seen inside City Hall in Yangon, Myanmar, on Monday. The Myanmar military said that it will rerun multiparty general elections after a one-year state of emergency declared earlier in the day.[Photo/Agencies]
A yearlong state of emergency was announced in Myanmar after the detention of senior government leaders on Monday.
A declaration signed on Monday morning by First Vice-President U Myint Swe, a former general who is serving as acting president, and announced on the military-owned Myawaddy TV, also stated that state power is being handed over to Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Min Aung Hlaing.
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Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Pakistani-British man acquitted of the 2002 beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl off death row and moved to a government “safe house.”
Ahmad Saeed Omar Sheikh, who has been on death row for 18 years, will be under arrest and will not be allowed to leave the safe house but his wife and children will be able to visit him.
The Pakistan government has been trying to keep Sheikh in prison after the Supreme Court last Thursday upheld his acquittal in the death of Pearl, triggering outrage by Pearl’s family and the US administration.
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YANGON: Myanmar’s military seized power in a bloodless coup on Monday, detaining democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and imposing a one-year state of emergency.The intervention.