Ex-Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi, in detention since being ousted in a military coup in 2021, was granted a partial pardon as part of a junta amnesty for more than 7,000 prisoners, on the occasion of Buddhist Lent, state media reported on Tuesday.
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“ State Board Chairman pardoned Daw Aung San Suu Kyiwho was sentenced by the competent courts, under the Human Rights Act “, announced the Burmese television news on Tuesday August 1st.
She is granted a pardon as part of a junta amnesty for more than 7,000 prisoners, on the occasion of Buddhist Lent, state media report. The pardon relates to 5 of the 19 convictions against her, and it was not immediately clear whether this would allow her release.
The deposed Burmese leader had recently come out of solitary confinement in her prison, but she remained locked up in a government building in Naypyidaw, an official of her National League for Democracy (LND) party said on July 28. Aung San Suu Kyi, 78, was ousted from power by the 2021 military coup. This putsch plunged this Southeast Asian country into a conflict which led to the displacement of more than a million people, according to the United Nations.
In December 2022, after a long trial, Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to 33 years jailed on a series of charges including bribery, possession of illegal walkie-talkies and breaching coronavirus restrictions. Human rights groups have called her trial a sham and a tool to keep the leader out of politics.
Since her arrest by the junta after the February 1, 2021 putsch, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate had only been seen once in shoddy photos taken by state media in a hall of court hearing in Naypyidaw, the capital. His health was a cause for concern.
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