Defiant Myanmar MPs in symbolic parliament meeting

About 70 Myanmar lawmakers defied the new military government on Thursday by convening a symbolic meeting of the parliament that was prevented from opening when the generals launched their coup on Monday.

The MPs signed their oaths of office at a government guesthouse compound in the capital Naypyitaw, where around 400 of them were initially detained in the aftermath of the takeover.

They have since been told they are free to return to their home districts.