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Update : 3 February, 2021 17:25 pm

Myanmar police file charges against Aung San Suu Kyi

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Myanmar police file charges against Aung San Suu Kyi

Myanmar's police filed charges against ousted and detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday for breaches of the country's import and export law, according to a police document, repor

The police are seeking her detention until February 15.

Military officers who searched Suu Kyi's residence found hand-held radios that were imported illegally and used without permission, the document from a police station in the capital Naypyitaw said.

A separate document showed police filed charges against ousted President Win Myint for offenses under the Disaster Management Law. Reports say he is alleged to have broken COVID-19 rules during a campaign rally.

Myanmar's military arrested Suu Kyi, President Win Myint and several allies in a coup on Monday.

The army declared a one-year state of emergency. It said authorities had failed to resolve allegations of fraud in November's election. Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party won the vote by a landslide.

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The NLD on Wednesday said its offices in several regions of the country had been raided, and documents, computers and laptops seized.

The raids started on Tuesday, the party said in a statement on Facebook.

It urged authorities to stop what it said were unlawful acts.

G7 slams military coup

The G7 nations and the EU said they were "united in condemning the coup in Myanmar," in a statement on Wednesday.

"We are deeply concerned by the detention of political leaders and civil society activists, including State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint, and targeting of the media," foreign ministers from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US, together with the EU High Representative said.