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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ex-Myanmar ambassador to UK on trial for trespassing in diplomatic residence

Kyaw Zwar Minn standing on the driveway of a house behind an iron gate
Kyaw Zwar Minn outside at his north London residence in 2021. Photograph: Ian West/PA

Myanmar’s ousted ambassador to the UK has gone on trial on trespassing charges for refusing to leave a diplomatic residence after being unceremoniously locked out of the embassy in 2021.

Shortly after Myanmar’s military seized power in 2021, triggering mass protests that spiralled into a civil war, Kyaw Zwar Minn was locked out of the embassy for declaring his loyalty to the deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

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