Facebook has come under heavy criticism for failing to contain online hate campaigns in Myanmar, despite having banned army chief Min Aung Hlaing now the military ruler in 2018.
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Australia’s Ambassador to Burma Speaks to Detained Advisor of Aung San Suu Kyi
Australia’s ambassador to Burma (also known as Myanmar) has spoken with Sean Turnell, the detained economics adviser to the deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Foreign Minister Marise Payne has said.
“Our ambassador and professor Turnell discussed his health, welfare and the conditions in which he is being detained,” Senator Payne said in a statement on Thursday.
“We continue to call for Professor Turnell’s immediate release, and for his rights and welfare to be upheld,” Payne said. “We are pressing the Myanmar authorities for regular consular access to Professor Turnell.”
“Nostalgia sure ain’t what it used to be,” Prof Sean Turnell posted wryly on Twitter, the morning after a coup plunged Myanmar back into military dictatorship.