Myanmar foreign minister Aung San Suu Kyi smiles during joint press conference with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (not in picture) after their meeting in Ministry of Foreign Affair at Naypyitaw April 5, 2016. REUTERS/Thar Byaw
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi is facing criticism from rights groups and student activists who say her ruling party is planning to retain restrictions on free speech once wielded against it by the country's former junta.
Since taking power in April, former political prisoner Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) has released scores of detainees and is making a big push to revise some of the most repressive measures from the long years of military rule.
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