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Protesters gather in Yangon, despite meeting ban

(9 Feb 2021) Defying an emergency ban, anti-coup protestors in Myanmar gathered again in Yangon and Mandalay on Tuesday. Carrying banners and holding up three-fingered salutes – a sign of opposition adopted from protesters in neighbouring Thailand – growing crowds assembled despite decrees issued on Monday that effectively banned peaceful public protests in the country's two biggest cities. The ban covers rallies and gatherings of more than five people, along with motorised processions. An 8pm to 4 am curfew was imposed for areas of Yangon and Mandalay, where thousands of people have been demonstrating since Saturday. The decrees enabling the new restrictive measures were issued on a township-by-township basis and were expected to be extended to other areas as well. They say they were issued in response to people carrying out unlawful actions that harm the rule of law, a reference to the protests. The growing defiance was striking in a country where past demonstrations have been met with deadly force. That resistance was happening in the capital Naypyitaw, whose population includes many civil servants and their families, and spoke to the level of anger among people who had only begun to taste democracy in recent years after five decades of military rule. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...