Sep. 2 (EUROPA PRESS) –
A court in Burma this Friday 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 is added to other convictions against her after his 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.
The coup was carried out by the Army to annul the results of the general elections of November 2020, in which Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) won the parliamentary majority, arguing that there had been fraud, a statement questioned by international observers.
Despite this, NLD MPs later took office in an informal ceremony and re-elected Suu Kyi for a second term. Like Suu Kyi, the country’s president, Win Myint, also remains in detention.
The coup was followed by a harsh campaign of repression against opponents, activists and protesters that has resulted in more than 2,260 deaths to date and around 15,350 detainees, according to data published by the Association for the Assistance of Political Prisoners (AAPP). ) through his Twitter account.
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