SYDNEY: Australia's foreign minister called on Sunday for the"immediate release" of economist Sean Turnell, who has been detained by Myanmar's military junta for the past year.
He has been charged with violating Myanmar's official secrets law and faces a maximum penalty of 14 years in prison if found guilty. The coup triggered mass protests and a bloody military crackdown, with more than 1,500 civilians killed and nearly 12,000 arrested as of Feb 4, according to a local monitoring group.
"Consistent with basic standards of justice and transparency, we expect that Professor Turnell should have unimpeded access to his lawyers, and that Australian officials be able to observe his court proceedings," Payne said."I've just been detained at the moment, and perhaps charged with something, I don't know what that would be, could be anything at all of course," Turnell told the broadcaster at the time.
Did Australia order the US to free Julian Assange?
Yes if I'm a Presidential candidate, I would ask an economist how gdp, inflation works, printing money and circulation, banks and so on. Not that i have zero knowledge on it but i wanna hear someone with expertise explain it. I can also research.
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