Even before the most recent sentence, the 77-year-old Aung San Suu Kyi had been sentenced to 17 years in prison for, among other things, corruption and incitement against the army.
Myanmar’s military court sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday for election fraud, a source close to the matter told the news agency AFP.
The most recent sentence, three years in prison and hard manual labor, is related to election fraud allegations.
Aung San Suu Kyi’s party received an avalanche of votes in the 2020 elections. The country’s armed forces claim that there was extensive electoral fraud in the elections. According to international election observers, the elections were free.
Even before this, the 77-year-old Aung San Suu Kyi had been sentenced to 17 years in prison for corruption, incitement against the army, violation of corona rules and violation of the Telecommunications Act. Several other charges are also still pending.
Myanmar has been unstable for a long time
Aung San Suu Kyi has been detained since the military seized power in Myanmar in February last year.
Since the February 2021 coup, more than 2,200 people have been killed and 15,000 imprisoned as the military junta suppresses the opposition.
For example, in July two pro-democracy activists were executed in Myanmar, Kyaw Min Yu andPhyo Zeya Thaw. They both belonged to the party led by the ousted Aung San Suu Kyi.
Speaker of the regime ousted in a military coup Linn Thant told in July that the ruling junta is resorting to violence because it has not succeeded in consolidating its power in the past year and a half.
– Suu Kyi can also be sentenced to death and executed. I fear that the international community may be late in preventing it, Linn Thant told at the time.
In a report published by the UN in 2018, the Myanmar army was accused of persecuting and murdering the Rohingya, and Suu Kyi was accused of not intervening as the country’s leader.
In the video, we reveal the background of the situation of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar. The archive video is from 2017.