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Myanmar junta court has sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to another 6 years in jail after corruption cases verdict. Suu Kyi had called the accusations absurd and had denied all the charges against her.

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Myanmar sentences Aung San Suu Kyi to 6 more years in jail
Myanmar junta court has sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to another 6 years in jail after corruption cases verdict. Suu Kyi had called the accusations absurd and had denied all the charges against her.

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The 77-year-old Nobel laureate and figurehead of Myanmar’s opposition to military rule has been charged with at least 18 offences ranging from graft to election violations, carrying combined maximum jail terms of nearly 190 years.

Suu Kyi had called the accusations absurd and denies all charges against her.

She was found guilty on Monday of misusing funds from the Daw Khin Kyi Foundation – an organisation she founded promoting health and education – to build a home, and leasing government-owned land at a discounted rate, a source with knowledge of the proceedings said.

Suu Kyi, who is being held in solitary confinement in a jail in the capital Naypyitaw, had already been sentenced to 11 years’ prison on sedition, corruption and other charges.

Myanmar has been in turmoil since last year when the military overthrew an elected government led by Suu Kyi’s party after it won a general election, and led a deadly crackdown on dissent.

Tens of thousands of people have been jailed and many tortured, beaten or killed, in what the United Nations has called crimes against humanity.

The international community has imposed sanctions on the military and dismissed Suu Kyi’s secretive trials as farcical.

‘‘It’s a massive assault against her rights, and part of the campaign to bury her and the NLD forever,’’ said Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch, referring to her ousted party, the National League for Democracy.

The military government’s spokesperson Zaw Min Tun could not be reached for comment on Monday.

It has previously said Suu Kyi is being given due process by an independent judiciary and rejects foreign criticism as interference.

The daughter of the leader of Myanmar’s campaign for independence from British colonial led the country for five years during a brief period of tentative reforms before being forced from power in the February 2021 coup.

An Australian economist and former adviser to Suu Kyi has pleaded guilty to charges of violating an official secrets law.

Sean Turnell, who has also been detained since the coup, faces up to 14 years in prison if found guilty. Several members of Suu Kyi’s economic team were indicted for the same offence.

Source | Reuters


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