Australian economist Sean Turnell remains in detention in Burma (also known as Myanmar) as the Cambodian Prime Minister apologised for giving the wrong information that he had been released. Prof. Turnell is a former advisor to the ousted Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi. He has been detained for a year after being arrested on Feb. 6, 2021, five days following a coup started by the country’s military junta, which ousted Suu Kyi’s elected government. Along with Suu Kyi and three of her former Cabinet ministers, Turnell was charged with violating Burma’s immigration and official secrets acts, which has a maximum penalty of 14-year jail term. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen was quoted on Monday by Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP), Cambodia’s national press agency, as saying that he welcomed Turnell’s release by Myanmar junta leader Aung Min Hlaing, following Sen’s lobbying on behalf of Australia. “The release is indeed to the senior general’s …