YANGON (Reuters) - Another 10 activists trying to pray for the release of Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi were arrested on Wednesday, taking the total to nearly 50 in two days, friends said.
Police arrested the group as they prepared to pray at a pagoda on the outskirts of Yangon for the release of Suu Kyi, 61, a Nobel peace laureate whose latest period of detention by the military regime ends on May 27, they said.
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