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By: EFE Updated 15 Aug 2022, 7: 48 am EDT
A Burmese military court on Monday sentenced the deposed leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi to another six years in prison for cases of corruption attributed to him, according to sources close to the judicial process.
Suu Kyi received a three-year sentence when she was found guilty of abusing her position to rent some land below the market price and another three for building a house with donations that should have been used to charitable works in a foundation that she presided over, detailed the local media Myanmar Now.
The deposed leader, aged 77, was tried at door closed by a court controlled by the coup military in the capital Naypyidaw.
The penalty of six years is added to the eleven years in prison to which Suu had already been sentenced Kyi, who has been under arrest since the morning of February 1, 2021, when General Min Aung Hlain seized power by a military coup d’état.
The ousted leader received a five-year prison sentence in April for accepting bribes worth 600, dollars and 11, 4 kilos of gold from the hands of the former governor of Rangoon Phyo Min Thein, who testified in October against the elected leader.
In December Suu Kyi was sentenced to four years, reduced to two by a partial pardon from the board military , for violating laws against the pandemic and incitement against the authorities, while in January she was sentenced to four years for skipping the measures against the spread of the covid-19 and for the illegal importation of telecommunication devices
The former Minister of State is also tried for allegedly violating the law of official secrets, punished with a maximum of 14 years in prison, and is accused in court for the crime of electoral fraud during the November elections of 2020.
Suu Kyi’s lawyers, who have been banned by the military junta from speaking to the media, have described all the accusations against her as a fabrication.
The coup led by General Min Aung Hlain has plunged Burma into a deep political crisis, social and economic, and has opened a spiral of violence with new civil militias that have exacerbated the guerrilla war that the country has been experiencing for decades.
At least 2.189 person They have died as a result of the brutal repression exerted by police and soldiers, who have come to shoot to kill peaceful and unarmed protesters, according to data collected by the Burmese NGO Association for the Assistance of Political Prisoners.
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