The famous 77-year-old opponent is to spend a total of 33 years behind bars, after an 18-month closed-door procedure described as politics by human rights defenders.
By AFP
LBurmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced by a junta court to an additional seven years in prison for corruption, in the latest part of her river trial, a judicial source told AFP on Friday.
The famous 77-year-old opponent is to spend a total of 33 years behind bars, after an 18-month closed-door procedure described as politics by human rights defenders.
The last five charges against her were considered on Monday. They related to the hiring of a helicopter by a minister of his government. Ms Suu Kyi was accused of breaking the rules and causing “a loss to the state”.
These seven years are in addition to the 26 years in prison to which the Burmese opponent had already been sentenced for 14 charges, ranging from corruption to the illegal possession of walkie-talkies, through the non-respect of sanitary measures. related to Covid-19.
The 1991 Nobel laureate saw her government overthrown by the military in February 2021, a putsch that ended a brief democratic period in the Southeast Asian country.
