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HISTORICAL FACTS: Thailand bars anti junta myanmar model - The Untold Story

Han Lay, Miss Grand Myanmar, looks on during an interview with Reuters in Bangkok in April last year. (Reuters Photo)

A Myanmar model and beauty pageant contestant who took refuge in Thailand after speaking out against the military coup in her homeland has been denied entry after a trip abroad and detained at Suvarnabhumi airport, immigration authorities said on Thursday.

Han Lay, Miss Grand International Myanmar 2020, was returning to Thailand from Da Nang in Vietnam and arrived at the airport on Wednesday afternoon, said Pol Maj Gen Archayon Kraithong, deputy chief of the Immigration Bureau.

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