Democracy figures, including a former lawmaker in Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, executed after being accused of carrying out ‘terror acts’
Myanmar’s junta has executed four prisoners, including a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, according to state media, in the country’s first use of capital punishment in decades.
The four men, including former legislator Phyo Zeya Thaw and prominent democracy activist Kyaw Min Yu, known as Jimmy, had been sentenced to death in January in closed trials.