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Aung San Suu Kyi Accepts Nobel Peace Prize

In her Nobel lecture, the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi spoke of the hope the award kindled as she was under house arrest, and urged the world not to succumb to “compassion fatigue.”

 

Myanmar judges reject Suu Kyi's appeal: lawyers

A Myanmar court Friday rejected an appeal by pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi against her extended house arrest, just days after the US re-engaged with the country's ruling junta. Judges at a divisional court in Yangon upheld the Nobel ...

 

Myanmar Again Closes Trial of Democracy Activist

Myanmar Again Closes Trial of Democracy Activist

With outrage growing over its prosecution of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s junta again closed her trial to diplomats.

 

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