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Shah, who flew into Imphal on Monday night, will visit Kangpokpi district in the afternoon, and will meet various groups there as well.
Myanmar has been in turmoil since a 2021 coup, with attacks by ethnic minority armies and resistance fighters challenging the rule of the military, which has responded with air strikes and heavy weapons, including in civilian areas.
The court handed down a two-year sentence to Suu Kyi for breaching the export-import law by possessing the handheld radios and one year for having a set of signal jammers.
The sentencing was the first in a series of cases in which the 76-year-old Nobel laureate is being prosecuted since the army seized power on Feb 1, preventing her National League for Democracy party from starting a second five-year term in office.
An investigation is underway to ascertain whether the incident was a case of mistaken identity.
He was the first western journalist sentenced to prison in recent years in Myanmar, where a military coup had overthrown an elected government led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
'Our people are dying and being shot by the military every day,' she said in a video message for the competition, where she was appearing in the finals at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida.
Many residents of the town have fled, according to accounts on social media.
Myanmar's junta said on Friday they would hold elections within two years, the first timeframe it has given for a return to democracy since its February 1 coup.
Young people in the main city of Yangon handed out eggs bearing the messages of protest, pictures in posts showed.