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- Former State Counsellor of Myanmar Aung San SuuKyi was sentenced to four more years in prison. She was handed over the punishment in a case related to possession of unlicensed Walkie-talkie, reports Reuters. The court handed over a sentence of 2 years for breaching the export import law for possessing the handheld walkie-talkie and one year for having a set of signal jammers. The two sentences will run concurrently.
- Earlier, she had received a four year jail sentence for inciting people against the military government and breaching the coronavirus rules. The sentence was later reduced by two years.
- The court proceedings against Aung San SuuKyi are being conducted without media access. Lawyers of SuuKyi are barred from communicating to the media and public. However, the military government maintains that she is being tried with due legal process by an independent court led by a judge appointed during her term as head of the government.
- Human Rights groups have called the court proceedings a ‘circus’ meant to keep SuuKyi in prison indefinitely.
- Aung San SuuKyi has been slapped with close to a dozen cases since the army seized power last February, If found guilty of all the charges, she could be sentenced to more than 100 years in prison, reports AP.
Published date : 11 Jan 2022 04:28PM
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