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Released Australian adviser supports sanctions against Myanmar officials

FILE PHOTO: Australian economist Sean Turnell (L) stands with fellow economist Tim Harcourt during the Australia Myanmar Institute conference at Yangon University in Yangon, Myanmar, November 2017, in this picture obtained from social media on November 17, 2022. Tim Harcourt/via REUTERS

Australia should sanction Myanmar's military government and the regime's bankers, Sean Turnell, the Australian economist and adviser to deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi said in his first interview since being released from a Myanmar jail last week.

Speaking to The Australian newspaper on Monday, Turnell described 650 days of imprisonment following his arrest on 6 Feb 2021, first locked within the notorious colonial-era Insein Prison and then a detention centre in capital Naypyidaw.

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