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Lawyers meet Suu Kyi to discuss appeal

Source: Myanmar News

Beijing : China | 2 months ago

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Detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s lawyers met her for about two hours on Thursday and discussed the appeal to be filed against her sentence. “We were allowed to meet her for about two hours and we basically discussed the appeal to be filed,” Nyan Win, one of her...

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