The case hardly registered in the UK media. The ousted Myanmar ambassador to London, Kyaw Zwar Minn, was summoned to Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 30 May to face charges of trespassing in the ambassadorial residence. It was initiated in London by representatives of the junta that overthrew Myanmar’s democratic government in February 2021.
Following the coup, Mr Minn came out in support of the democracy movement. He was then locked out of the embassy by diplomats supportive of the junta. Since then, they have waged a campaign of threats and intimidation against him and his family in an attempt to drive him from the diplomatic residence, Myanmar House, in Hampstead. But he remains there, a custodian of the house for Myanmar’s democrats.
