Burma: Trumped up charges and sudden disbarring of defence lawyer

Following the trumped up charges laid against opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi by Burma's corrupt military government, AFP reports that a Burmese lawyer who applied to represent her at her trial next week, said he had been disbarred by the country's ruling military junta.

Aung Thein said he had received a letter from the authorities on Friday saying he was dismissed from the Burma lawyers association because of an earlier sentence for contempt of court.

"The dismissal letter from Naypyidaw (the administrative capital) was sent to me last night. I had been sentenced for four months because of contempt of court, that's why they dismissed me," Aung Thein told AFP.

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