YANGON: Myanmar's junta was under intense pressure yesterday to release democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi after a renewed appeal from the United Nations and protests from the United States which called her detention “shameful.”
UN envoy Tan Sri Razali Ismail, who met with the National League for Democracy (NLD) leader on Tuesday in the closing hours of his mission to Myanmar, pronounced her “well and in good spirits” and said he expected her to be freed in two weeks.
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