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AAP
Politics
Dominic Giannini

Former junta prisoner calls for more Myanmar sanctions

Academic Sean Turnell who was imprisoned in Myanmar is calling for stronger sanctions on the junta. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

An Australian who spent nearly two years in a Myanmar jail is calling on Canberra to sanction the country's state banks to strangle weapons purchases from China or Russia.

Australian academic Sean Turnell spent 650 days in a Myanmar cell after being imprisoned during a military coup for serving as a senior economic advisor to the country's ousted democratic leader.

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