UN military in Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi asked them to release the Political News
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Yangon on Thursday to mark the fifth month since the country staged a coup.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on the Myanmar military to release Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint now, a UN spokesman said after the coup five months after the release of thousands of other detainees.
Myanmar has been in turmoil since the army took power on February 1 and ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.
“We reiterate once again the immediate release of all those arrested arbitrarily, which includes President Win Myint and State Councilor Aung San Suu Kyi,” a spokesman for Eri Kaneko Guterres said on Thursday.
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Myanmar targets Aung San Suu Kyi with new corruption charges | Aung San Suu Kyi News
The citizen-elected leader has been under house arrest since the military took office and already holds several other charges.
Aung San Suu Kyi, who led Myanmar in February until the military took power in a coup, will face more corruption offenses a few days before he goes to formal trial.
Myanmar’s Global New Light of State has made new allegations a chain of other charges, Following an investigation by the Anti-Corruption Commission into the Daw Khin Kyi Foundation.
“They found him guilty of corruption using his level,” the paper says. “They were therefore indicted under section 55 of the Anti-Corruption Act.”