A court in military-ruled Myanmar finds former leader Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of corruption and sentences her to five years in jail in the first of 11 cases against her.
She has been held in an undisclosed location, where junta leader Min Aung Hlaing said she could remain after earlier guilty verdicts in other cases.
Suu Kyi's party won a landslide victory in a 2020 general election, but the military claimed there was widespread electoral fraud, an assertion that independent poll watchers doubted. Her supporters and independent legal experts consider her prosecution an unjust move to discredit Suu Kyi and legitimise the military’s seizure of power while keeping her from returning to an active role in politics.Suu Kyi holds the support of protesters who condemn the military coup and subsequent charges against her.
The military says Suu Kyi is on trial because she committed crimes and is being given due process by an independent judiciary.The nine other cases currently being tried under the Anti-Corruption Act include several related to the purchase and rental of a helicopter by one of her former cabinet ministers.
The state Anti-Corruption Commission declared several of her alleged actions deprived the state of revenue it would otherwise have earned.Suu Kyi is also being tried on a charge of violating the Official Secrets Act, which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years, and on a charge alleging election fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of three years.
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