Myanmar Junta Indicts NLD Patron U Win Htein for Sedition
Myanmar Junta Indicts NLD Patron U Win Htein for Sedition
National League for Democracy patron U Win Htein (center) and chairperson Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (right) are seen on June 20, 2015. / The Irrawaddy
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By The Irrawaddy 17 July 2021
Leading National League for Democracy (NLD) member U Win Htein was indicted for sedition by a court inside a Naypyitaw detention cell on Friday for a remark he made following the Feb. 1 coup.
Prosecution witnesses testified on the remarks that U Win Htein made in early February in a video report and a letter to the public, according to Daw Min Min Soe, the lawyer representing the NLD patron.
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