Cardinal Archbishop of Yangon Charles Bo has called on the Myanmar military to release Aung San Suu Kyi and other civilian officials detained on 1st February as part of their "shocking" coup.
After General Min Aung Hlaing, the army’s Commander in Chief, declared that Myanmar's elections in November last year were fraudulent, he declared a one-year state of emergency.
Suu Kyi, Myanmar's State Counsellor and leader of the National League of Democracy party, was charged with the illegal possession of imported walk-talkies found in her house in Naypyidaw, Myanmar's capital, according to NLD sources. The charge carries a penalty of a three-year jail term.
