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By Reuters Staff 5 Min Read (Reuters) - Myanmar police have filed charges against ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi for illegally importing communications equipment and she will be detained until Feb. 15 for investigations, according to a police document. The move followed a military coup on Monday and the detention of Nobel Peace laureate Suu Kyi and other civilian politicians. The takeover cut short Myanmar’s long transition to democracy and drew condemnation from the United States and other Western countries. A police request to a court detailing the accusations against Suu Kyi, 75, said si...

The NLD’s executive committee demanded the release of all detainees “as soon as possible”. 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 agains...

Military Tells Members of Myanmar’s Dissolved Parliament They Can Go Home Military Tells Members of Myanmar’s Dissolved Parliament They Can Go Home Soldiers and military trucks are seen outside the government guest house in Naypyitaw where MPs who were elected in last year’s poll reside, after the Tatmadaw staged a coup on Feb. 1, 2021. / The Irrawaddy 6.0k By Nyein Nyein & Nan Lwin 2 February 2021 Members of Myanmar’s Parliament elected in the 2020 vote who are currently confined in Naypyitaw’s government guesthouse following the coup on Monday were told by a military official on...

The Lady vanishes: Suu Kyi back under house arrest Issued on: 3 min Bangkok (AFP) The Myanmar military's detention of Aung San Suu Kyi during this week's coup has revived memories of her more than 15 years of house arrest at a lakeside villa in Yangon during the country's last period of junta rule. Under the cover of darkness early Monday, soldiers took Myanmar's de facto leader -- who became a beacon for democracy in the 1990s and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate -- back into custody. A lawmaker from her National League for Democracy (NLD) party, who requested anonymity, said Suu Kyi was under...

02 Feb 2021 / 20:22 H. (Adds details on calls for disobedience, main airport closed) * U.N. Security Council to meet on Tuesday * Biden calls for "whole of government" response * Suu Kyi's whereabouts not known * Junta replaces ministers Feb 2 (Reuters) - The party of Myanmar's detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi called on Tuesday for her immediate release and for the miitary junta that seized power a day earlier to recognise her victory in an election in November. The Nobel Peace laureate's whereabouts remained unknown more than 24 hours after her arrest in a military takeover that derailed My...