Fri 02 September 2022:
Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s deposed leader, was given a three-year prison term for election fraud by a military junta court, local media reported on Friday.
According to Khit Thit Media, the War on Terrorism Council found her guilty of alleged electoral fraud.
A junta court gave the former State Counsellor a six-year prison term last month. On six further counts, she had previously been found guilty in December, January, and April.
After her administration was overthrown by the military in February of last year, Suu Kyi was eventually found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
The military government transferred her to a prison in June and put her in solitary confinement.
She is facing over a dozen charges, including corruption, for which she received a five-year prison sentence in April.
Suu Kyi previously spent around 15 years under house arrest during different junta regimes in the Buddhist-majority country.
Suu Kyi has been imprisoned for the second time since 2009. The then-junta regime had transferred her to Yangon’s Insein Prison for four months earlier that year for “violating the rules of her house arrest.”
Suu Kyi’s government was deposed in a military coup last year after winning the national elections in November 2020.
The coup was met with widespread civic unrest as people denounced her removal and military rule. The junta repressed protests violently, despite UN warnings that the country had descended into civil war.
The military seized power in February 2021 to stop Aung San Suu Kyi’s NLD from forming a new government after the election that the military said had instances of fraud that had not been properly investigated.
More than 2,200 people have been killed and at least 15,000 arrested in the military’s crackdown on dissent since it seized power, according to a local monitoring group.
SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES
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