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Myanmar’s Ousted Pro-Democracy Leader Suu Kyi Faces New Charge

Charlotte Pence Bond
Myanmar’s Ousted Pro-Democracy Leader Suu Kyi Faces New Charge
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Myanmar police filed a new charge against ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday, which might make it possible for her to be held “indefinitely without trial as part of an intensifying crackdown by authorities who seized power in a coup,” according to The Associated Press.

The Feb. 1 military takeover in Myanmar resulted in Suu Kyi being detained and deposed. She is already facing one charge of illegal possession of “walkie-talkies  an apparent attempt to provide a legal veneer for house arrest.”

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