Myanmar’s Suu Kyi gets 3-year prison term for corruption
A special court set up by Myanmar’s military government on Wednesday sentenced deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to three years in prison on charges of corruption, further increasing the time the democracy icon will be behind bars, local media reports said.
The 77-year-old Nobel Peace laureate now faces 26 years in prison, after she had been detained and put on trial on multiple charges following the military’s ouster of her democratically-elected government in a February 2021 coup.
According to the reports, Suu Kyi, a symbol of democratic opposition to the military, faces allegations of accepting bribes from a businessman between 2018 and 2020.
Just last month, she was sentenced, along with her economic adviser, to three years in prison for violation of the official secrets law.