Myanmar’s ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been faced with an fresh criminal charge during a court hearing on Monday.
According to her lawyer Min Min Soe, Suu Kyi appeared for Monday’s court hearing via a video link and was slapped with an additional charge related to a natural disaster law
Min Min Soe said Suu Kyi is being been charged in six cases altogether, five charges in the capital Naypyidaw and one in Yangon. She added that the next hearing is set for April 26.
At her latest court hearing, Suu Kyi who has seen in public since being detained on February 1, when Myanmar’s military deposed her government has again asked to be allowed to meet her lawyers in person.
The 75-year-old Nobel laureate has only been allowed to talk with her lawyers via video link in the presence of security officials.
Security forces have killed 706 protesters, including 46 children, since the coup, according to a tally by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners activist group.
That tally includes 82 people killed in the town of Bago, about 70 kilometres northeast of Yangon, on Friday, which the AAPP called a “killing field”.
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