Kathmandu, April 27
A court has sentenced Myanmar’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in jail on corruption charges.
According to The New York Times, Suu Kyi, 76, was sentenced to five years in jail on Wednesday for accepting a bribe of 600,000 dollars and 25 pounds of gold.
She had already served four years in prison for unlawfully carrying a walkie-talkie.
She had already been found guilty of calling on people against the army and breaking COVID-19 preventive guidelines in court.
Suu Kyi was expelled by Myanmar’s military and the elected government on February 1, 2021. Her case is being heard in a closed chamber, and she has not been seen in public since.
Suu Kyi has been charged with 17 criminal counts by the army. Suu Kyi faces a maximum
sentence of 163 years in prison if convicted.
Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) gained a majority in the November 2020 general election, only months before the military coup. The government had been executed by the army, who claimed that the election had been falsified. The army stated that elections will be held in a fair manner.
Since the coup, civilians have been protesting military control. The crackdown has resulted in the deaths of at least 1,800 individuals.
