Ha Vu pleads for Prof Sean Turnell’s release after secret trial which Australian diplomats and journalists were banned from
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The wife of Australian economist Prof Sean Turnell – who has been sentenced to three years in jail by Myanmar’s military junta – says his sentence is “heartbreaking” for his family and has pleaded for his release.
In a statement published in Burmese and English, Ha Vu said her husband’s sentence – imposed after a secret trial in which Turnell was denied proper legal counsel – had devastated his family.
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