Sep. 3 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, has denounced this Friday the new sentence of three years in prison imposed on the former Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
“We strongly condemn the unjust sentence of the Burmese military regime against Aung San Suu Kyi to three more years in prison, including forced labor,” Blinken said in a message on his official Twitter social network account.
Thus, he added that we must “work together to make the regime accountable for the escalation of violence and the repression of the democratically elected leaders in Burma.”
Hours earlier, a Burmese court sentenced the country’s former ‘de facto’ leader Aung San Suu Kyi to another three years in prison, this time for a crime of electoral fraud, a ruling that adds to other convictions against her after her arrest during the February 2021 military coup.
The former Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1991 has been under arrest at her home in the capital, Naypyidaw, since June. She already adds eleven charges that have meant twenty years in prison. She denies the accusations and the trials, behind closed doors and without the possibility of her lawyers communicating with the media, have been questioned by human rights groups due to her political motivations.
Suu Kyi, who was already sentenced in recent months to six years in prison for incitement, flouting pandemic restrictions and violating a telecommunications law, still faces charges of violating the Official Secrets Act, election fraud and corruption.
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