This file handout photo from the state-run Myanmar News Agency (MNA) taken on July 28, 2021 and received on July 29 shows Sean Turnell, a detained Australian adviser to Myanmar's deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, getting vaccinated against the Covid-19 coronavirus in Insein prison in Yangon. - AFP
SYDNEY Feb 6, 2022 (AFP): Australia's foreign minister called Sunday for the "immediate release" of economist Sean Turnell, who has been detained by Myanmar's military junta for the past year.
Turnell, an Australian economics professor, was working as an advisor to civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi when he was arrested last February, just days after a military coup.
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