Ousted Myanmar leader Suu Kyi faces five new corruption charges
Suu Kyi has been detained since a military takeover last year.
Suu Kyi has been detained since a military takeover last year.
The Nobel laureate was arrested by the military when they seized power at the start of February.
Sean Turnell had been an adviser to the country’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who was also arrested when her elected government was ousted by the army.
The country’s former leader, ousted in February, complained of feeling unwell while travelling to court.
National Unity Government spokesman Duwa Lashi made the appeal.
A catastrophic situation has been predicted in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region, southern Madagascar, Yemen, South Sudan and northern Nigeria.
In the past week, Myanmar’s per-capita death rate has surpassed that of Indonesia and Malaysia.
Human Rights Watch said the allegations being heard in a special court in the capital, Naypyitaw, are ‘bogus and politically motivated’.
Myanmar’s opposition shadow government said ASEAN should meet with them as well.
Race is an important issue for the monarchy after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex accused an unnamed member of the royal family of a racist comment.
State television MRTV broadcast on its evening news programme the first photo of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi since the coup.
According to Democratic Voice of Burma, two young men were shot and seriously wounded in Hpa-an.
A journalist for the Associated Press said he will also be released from detention.
Video recorded in Mandalay showed a motorcyclist apparently being shot off his motorbike by police on an empty street.
Protesters were back in the streets on Friday morning in several cities and towns.