The former Burmese leader, who had previously been sentenced to a total of eleven years in prison, was found guilty of four corruption charges.
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The Burmese junta is tightening its grip around Aung San Suu Kyi. The former leader of Burma was sentenced Monday, August 15, to an additional six years in prison. The 77-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner, who had previously been sentenced to a total of 11 years in prison, was found guilty of four corruption charges.
Appeared in good health at the military court, according to a source close to the case, she did not comment after the reading of the judgment. Arrested during the military coup of February 1, 2021, Aung San Suu Kyi was placed in solitary confinement in a prison in Naypyidaw at the end of June. It is in this prison in the capital that his trial is being held, which began more than a year ago, behind closed doors, his lawyers being prohibited from speaking to the press and international organizations.
The United States denounced “unjust arrest and conviction” ofAung San Suu Kyi. This new prison sentence constitutes “an affront to justice and the rule of law“said a spokesman for the US State Department on Monday. Aung San Suu Kyi is targeted by a multitude of offences: violation of a law on state secrets dating from the colonial era, electoral fraud, sedition, corruption… She risks decades in prison.
At the end of April, the Nobel laureate had already been sentenced to five years in prison under the anti-corruption law, for having received 600,000 dollars and more than eleven kilos of gold in bribes from the former minister in responsible for the Yangon region. She had previously been tried for importing and illegally possessing walkie-talkiesviolating coronavirus restrictions and inciting public unrest.