YANGON, Feb 17 (NNN-MNA) – Cases against detained Myanmar President, U Win Myint, and State Counsellor, Aung San Suu Kyi, will be processed in line with the law, a senior military official said, yesterday.
“Aung San Suu Kyi and U Win Myint are detained in safe places and both are in good health,” Brigadier General, Zaw Min Tun, head of the State Administration Council’s press team and deputy minister for information, said, at the council’s first press conference.
There are some affairs that need to be addressed by taking legal actions and the council will not do anything which goes beyond the law, said Zaw Min Tun.
The first virtual court hearings of President U Win Myint and State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, who were remanded in detention, were held yesterday, Khin Maung Zaw, lawyer of the two leaders, said.
Aung San Suu Kyi was initially charged under the Export and Import Law, while an additional case was filed later against her, for violating the Natural Disaster Management Law. U Win Myint was also charged for breaching the Natural Disaster Management Law, the lawyer said.
The next hearings will be held on Mar 1, the lawyer said.
The military alleged that, there was massive voting fraud in the country’s Nov, 2020 general elections, which saw the NLD win a majority of seats in both houses of parliament.
Myanmar’s Union Election Commission dismissed the allegation.
Earlier this month, the State Administration Council, reformed the Union Election Commission, taking steps to review the process of the general elections.– NNN-MNA
