Breaking: Aung San Suu Kyi, the overthrown leader of Myanmar, has been found guilty of inciting public unrest and breaching coronavirus restrictions and sentenced to four years’ jail | ChrisBarrett_
Aung San Suu Kyi, the overthrown leader of Myanmar, has been found guilty of inciting public unrest and breaching coronavirus restrictions and sentenced to four years’ jail.
Suu Kyi received two-year sentences for each of the convictions, as did deposed president Win Myint, who faced the same charges. “The military think that if they are able to remove Aung San Suu Kyi from the political stage, they can win over the anti-coup movement. But their actions will be counterproductive,” said Shwe, whose late father Monywa Tin Shwe was a founding member of the NLD with Suu Kyi and died as a political prisoner in Yangon’s Insein Prison in 1997.
Suu Kyi and her Australian economic advisor Sean Turnell are among more than 10,000 to have been arrested and imprisoned since the coup, the monitoring group says. While many members of Suu Kyi’s former government are in hiding or have fled into exile, Myanmar’s courts have already come down heavily on several of her political associates.Twitter/@RvlBurma2