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03 Feb 2021

“It could be anything from a fax machine to a walkie-talkie. It’s a notorious law because it was used under the former military regime all the time to imprison political prisoners. There was a lot of criticism for the NLD [National League for Democracy] for not changing that law when they came to power because many of their members have been imprisoned under it.”

Ali Fowle
Ali Fowle
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Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from Yangon (Myanmar)
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