According to a source acquainted with the proceedings, former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi was convicted guilty of electoral fraud on Friday and given a sentence of three years in prison with hard labour.
Since a coup at the beginning of last year, the Nobel laureate and leader of Myanmar’s opposition to decades of military rule has been jailed, and he has already received a prison term of more than 17 years. She disputes every accusation made against her.
She was found guilty of fraud in the general election of November 2020, where her National League for Democracy (NLD) easily defeated a party founded by the powerful military and won with a resounding parliamentary majority.
The source claimed it was the first time hard labour had been used in Suu Kyi’s sentencing and it was unclear what it would entail. The source asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorised to speak to the media.
In order to prevent Suu Kyi’s NLD from creating a new government following the election, which it said contained instances of fraud that had not been thoroughly probed, the military seized control in February 2021.
The NLD asserted that it won properly and denied cheating.
Suu Kyi has been on trial for more than a year now for a number of offences that carry combined maximum penalties of more than 190 years, ranging from corruption and incitement to the disclosure of state secrets.
Her trials have taken place in secret in the nation’s capital, Naypyitaw, and the junta has made few public comments regarding the proceedings. Suu Kyi’s attorneys have been subject to a gag order.
Suu Kyi was moved to solitary confinement in a jail in the nation’s capital, Naypyitaw, by military authorities from an undisclosed location in June.
The head of the junta, Min Aung Hlaing, stated last month that he would consider placing Suu Kyi under house arrest, but only after all of the decisions in her cases had been completed in response to a request for her to be permitted to return home made by a visiting UN official.
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