Myanmar: Women lawyers fight junta on legal battlefield

Nikkei Asia report (paywall)

Zar Li is not the same lawyer she was in January. In the “old Myanmar” she used to like hanging out in her Yangon apartment, performing a Whitney Houston song or cooking her favorite dishes. Now, under constant threat to her life, she works relentlessly under searing sun outside Yangon prisons to defend protesters against the Myanmar military regime that seized power on Feb. 1.

Read more at  https://asia.nikkei.com/Life-Arts/Life/Women-lawyers-fight-Myanmar-junta-on-legal-battlefield