Student activist Lin Lin, then president of Yangon Eastern University Student's Union, leads a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon on August 30, 2021. (AFP)

‘I will do it again’: Myanmar student defies junta from jail

Student activist Ma Lin Lin led protests against Myanmar's junta, defying the generals for months before being hunted down and caught. Now serving a 15-year sentence, she regrets nothing.

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