Myanmar Foreign Minister and State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi speaks during a special keynote at the Foreign Ministry in Bangkok, Thailand, June 24, 2016. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's government, led by Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD), should amend and abolish laws that threaten freedom of expression, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Wednesday.
Laws covering areas from telecommunications to defamation have been used to arrest at least 70 people this month, said the report's author, Linda Lakhdhir.
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