Myanmar: Suu Kyi sentenced to 3 years, 17 years in prison for election fraud

New Delhi. Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was convicted on Friday of electoral fraud and sentenced to three years in prison by a judge. A source familiar with the proceedings of the trial gave this information. Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel laureate and leader of opposition to Myanmar’s decades of military rule, has been detained since a coup early last year. He has previously served more than 17 years in prison. While she denies all the allegations against her.

With this the very existence of Suu Kyi’s ‘National League for Democracy Party’ is also in danger. The army has announced that fresh elections will be held in the country in 2023. Significantly, on February 1, 2021, Myanmar’s army took over the reins of the country and detained Suu Kyi and several senior leaders of Myanmar. Suu Kyi’s party won a landslide victory in the last general election, but the military says the election was largely rigged. Independent election observers did not find any major irregularities.

A Myanmar court also rejected Suu Kyi’s lawyer’s request to disqualify her testimony

It is noteworthy that in the November 2020 general election, Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) won a landslide victory by defeating a party formed by the ruling military. The ousted president and co-defendant Win Myint is said to have been given the same sentence. A spokesman for the ruling military council did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The public has said that Suu Kyi has been punished through due process. Suu Kyi seized power in February 2021 to prevent the NLD from forming a new government after the election.

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