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A couple exits the shop of a well-known fortune teller in Yangon’s Shwedagon Pagoda on November 7, 2015. (AFP)

Families of political prisoners find comfort in the occult

With no faith in Myanmar’s broken justice system, some relatives of political prisoners are turning to superstitious practices and fortune tellers – rather than lawyers – in desperate attempts to release their loved ones.

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