Suu Kyi appears in court as Myanmar protesters return to streets
Al Jazeera
New charges filed against Aung San Suu Kyi as police again clamp down on protesters rallying in Yangon.
Myanmar’s deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi has appeared in a court hearing via video link and was hit with additional charges, as anti-coup protesters rallied across the country again in defiance of a security force crackdown that killed at least 18 people the previous day. The 75-year-old looked healthy as she took part in the court hearing on Monday from the capital, Naypyidaw, and asked to see her legal team, lawyer Min Min Soe told Reuters news agency. The leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD), which swept last November’s now-annulled election, has not been seen in public since her detention on February 1 when the military seized power, alleging widespread electoral fraud.
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