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Former UK Burmese ambassador faces five years in jail – the Express

August 25, 2022 Campaign News

Britain’s former ambassador to Burma could be jailed for five years after she was arrested by the country’s ruthless junta, reports the Express.

Mark Farmaner, the director of Burma Campaign UK, called Ms. Bowman’s detention “shocking and surprising news.”

Hours after Ms Bowman’s arrest, Britain announced that it was imposing new economic sanctions against companies linked to the Burmese military. Britain also announced that it would seek to intervene in a case brought by the Gambia at the International Court of Justice accusing Myanmar of violating the United Nations’ Genocide Convention for atrocities committed against Rohingya Muslims in 2017.

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