‘Authoritarian backsliding’: Labor attacks PM over Myanmar inaction

Labor is demanding the Morrison government target key figures in Myanmar’s military with sanctions to mark the first anniversary of the junta’s bloody coup.

Myanmar’s democratically elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, was overthrown on February 1 last year. Earlier this month she was sentenced to four years jail, and faces further charges, in a process that human rights advocates have slammed as a show trial. One of the charges she was convicted over was possessing walkie-talkies.