Aung San Suu Kyi — "Quite frankly, as many people know, there are political prisoners and that shows…"
Quite frankly, as many people know, there are political prisoners and that shows [the country] does not have a free and fair judicial system.
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Press conference one year after her release from house arrest, criticizing the judicial system. This quote is controversial in retrospect given her government's later jailing of journalists and critics.
Date: 2011
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