Aung San Suu Kyi, the deposed former leader of Myanmar and Nobel Peace Prize winner, has been found guilty of electoral fraud by a court in the military-run country and sentenced to three years in prison with hard labor
Friday's verdict against Suu Kyi is the latest in a string of punishments meted out against the 77-year-old and means she now faces 20 years in jail.However, this is the first time Suu Kyi -- a figurehead of opposition to decades of military rule in the country -- has been sentenced to hard labor since the country's most recent military coup in 2021. She was given hard labor in a separate trial under a previous administration in 2009 but that sentence was commuted.
Read MoreShe has also denied a string of other charges that have been brought against her in a series of secretive trials since she was detained more than a year ago.Suu Kyi is currently being held in solitary confinement at a prison in the capital Naypyitaw.Former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to 6 more years in prisonLast month, state media outlets in Myanmar reported that a court had sentenced her to six years in prison after convicting her on four counts of corruption.
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