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The Prime Minister's lawyers - Aung San Suu Kyi has not been seen in public since the military coup
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Myanmar's head of government, Aung San Suu Kyi, who was under house arrest, was given access to her lawyers on Monday for the first time since the military coup in early February.
Before a court hearing in the capital, Naypyidaw, the 75-year-old was given half an hour in a separate room to consult with her defense team, said lawyer Thae Maung Maung and said: "She is in good health."
In Myanmar, the military seized power earlier this year.
Numerous politicians and activists were arrested.
Suu Kyi has not been seen in public since the coup.
The judiciary accuses the disempowered politician of various offenses, including violations of foreign trade laws, a state secret law from the colonial era and the corona measures.
The accusation of "inciting a riot" has been the heaviest so far.
All previous court appointments had been conducted via video switching without Suu Kyi being able to speak to her defense lawyers.
She emphasized that 30 minutes were not enough to discuss all cases with her lawyers - and therefore asked them to request another meeting with the judge, it said in a statement.
In addition, Suu Kyi sent her best wishes to the people.
Then the lawyers also got access to the also appointed President Win Myint.
The actual hearing was adjourned to June 7th by the judge.
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Protesters demand the release of Aung San Suu Kyi (February 2021)
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Suu Kyi had been under house arrest for a total of 15 years.
After the introduction of democratic reforms, she became the de facto head of government in 2016.
She is very popular with the people and secured a second term in the parliamentary elections in November.
Observers believe that it should have become too dangerous for the generals who had ruled the former Burma for decades with an iron fist.
The junta, on the other hand, justified the coup with alleged electoral fraud.
The military in the Southeast Asian country is brutally suppressing any resistance.
Just a few years ago, Myanmar raised hopes as a state that set out to shake off half a century of military dictatorship.
Since the coup, however, the country has sunk into chaos and violence that flares up again and again.
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