Former Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi, held incommunicado for nearly three months and indicted on multiple occasions by the junta, has still not been allowed to meet with her defense team, one of her officials said. lawyers.
Aung San Suu Kyi, 75, appeared on Monday April 26 by videoconference in front of a court in the capital Naypyidaw.
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She asked to finally meet the team responsible for defending her, but the police did not comply with her request, saying they were working on it "
step by step
", and the hearing was postponed to May 10, according to Min Min. Soe, his lawyer. The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, emaciated but appearing in good health, is very upset by the slowness of the procedure, added Min Min Soe.
Arrested on February 1 at the time of the putsch, Aung San Suu Kyi has not been seen in public since and is under house arrest in Naypyidaw. She is being prosecuted on six counts, including violating a colonial-era state secrets law. She is also accused of having collected over a million dollars and 11 kilos of gold in bribes, but has not yet been charged with "
corruption
". If found guilty, she could be banned from politics, even sentenced to long years in prison. Aung San Suu Kyi “does
not have access to news and television. I don't think she knows the current situation in the country
», Lamented Min Min Soe.
Daily demonstrations demanding his release and the restoration of democracy continue to be violently repressed by the security forces.
More than 750 people have been killed and nearly 3,500 arrested, according to the Association for Assistance to Political Prisoners (AAPP).
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On Monday April 26, small groups of protesters again took to the streets across the country, waving "
Free Our Leaders
"
signs
and red flags adorned with a golden peacock, the party symbol of Aung San Suu Kyi. , the National League for Democracy (LND). The head of the junta, General Min Aung Hlaing, explained his coup d'état by alleging fraud in the November legislative elections, which was won overwhelmingly by the NLD. He made his first overseas trip since the coup this weekend, attending a summit with officials from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) in Jakarta. During the meeting,the ten member states of this organization called for an "
immediate end to violence in Burma
»And the appointment of a special envoy able to travel to this country as quickly as possible.
