U Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi, filmmaker and founder of the Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival, is being prosecuted for allegedly defaming the Tatmadaw in a series of Facebook posts. He has been denied bail, despite having liver cancer, and faces a two-year prison sentence.
Myanmar's detained democratic leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi met with the nation's Red Cross representative on Monday, the regime president's office said.
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