Australian citizen and Suu Kyi's adviser Sean Turnell 'detained' in Myanmar

An Australian ecomic visor to Myanmar’s deposed leer Aung San Suu Kyi told BCC that he has been detained in country following military coup d'état. Sean Turnell, a professor at Macquarie University in Sydney, is first foreign national to be detained by Myanmar’s military junta as per media reports. Responding to same, Australia’s foreign minister Marise Payne has w expressed "serious concerns about an Australian who has been detained at a police station".

As Myanmar’s military has taken steps to undermine country's democratic transition, including arrest of nation’s de facto leer Aung San Suu Kyi and few or civilian officials in Burma, several governments and human rights groups across globe expressed concern and urged military to immediately release all those who have been detained unlawfully. Myanmar Army, on or hand, has said that it carried out detentions in response to fraud in last vember’s general election that Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) won by a landslide. According to Myanmar’s local media outlet, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing is w in control of country and a state of emergency has been imposed for one year. 

Speaking to BBC, Turnell said that he was “being detained at moment” and perhaps changer with something” which he does t yet kw about. Speaking furr he said although, “everyone was being polite, but obviously he was t free to move or anything like that”. As of t, it is t clear where he has been detained although, he h earlier told BBC that was being kept at his hotel. Macquarie University said it was aware of reports of Turnell's arrest, ding it fully supported "both his work in Myanmar and efforts of Australian Government to secure his swift release".

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In name of public interest and state stability after blocking Facebook, Myanmar Army furr expanded its internet crackdown and blocked Twitter as well as Instagram days after seizing power in a coup. On February 4, new military government blocked access to Facebook as resistance to Monday's coup surged amid calls for civil disobedience to protest ousting of elected civilian government and its leer Aung San Suu Kyi. 

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