The highest court in Myanmar has agreed to consider an appeal by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the country’s battered democracy movement, over an 18-month extension of her longstanding house arrest, her lawyer said Friday.
The decision by the Supreme Court comes after a lower court’s rejection in October and coincides with tentative [...]
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