A senior official from the party of Myanmar’s detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said he has learned that her health is good and that she was not being moved from the location where she is being held after a military coup against her government.
The whereabouts and condition of Myanmar’s elected leader have not been made public since she was arrested in the capital, Naypyidaw, by the military during Monday’s power grab.
“There is no plan to move Daw Aung San Su Kyi and Doctor Myo Aung. It’s learned that they are in good health,” Kyi Toe, a member of the National League for Democracy’s (NLD) central information committee, said in a Facebook post which also referred to one of her allies.
The NLDâs executive committee demanded the release of all detainees âas soon as possibleâ.
In a post on the Facebook page of senior party official May Win Myint, the committee also called for the military to acknowledge the election results and for the new parliament to be allowed to sit. It had been due to meet on Monday for the first time since the election.
Various activist groups on Tuesday issued a flurry of messages on social media urging civil disobedience.
Ms Suu Kyi (75) endured about 15 years of house arrest between 1989 and 2010 as she led a democracy movement against the military, which had seized power in a 1962 coup and stamped out all dissent until her party came to power in 2015.
Suu Kyi s party demands her release as Myanmar generals tighten grip 02 February 2021 - 11:39 By Reuters Myanmar soldiers look on as they stand inside Yangon City Hall after they occupied the building, in Yangon, Myanmar February 2, 2021. Image: REUTERS/Stringer
The party of Myanmar s detained elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi called on Tuesday for her immediate release and for the junta to recognise her victory in November elections, a day after a military coup sparked global outrage.
The United States threatened to reimpose sanctions on Myanmar s generals after they seized power and arrested Suu Kyi and dozens of her allies in dawn raids on Monday.
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(Reuters) - The din of banging pots and honking car horns reverberated through Myanmar’s biggest city of Yangon late on Tuesday in the first widespread protest against the military coup that overthrew elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
The party of the detained Nobel Peace laureate called for her release by the junta that seized power on Monday and is keeping her at an undisclosed location. It also demanded recognition of her victory in a November election.
A senior official from her National League for Democracy (NLD) said he had learned she was in good health a day after her arrest in a military takeover that derailed Myanmar’s tentative progress towards full democracy.