Aung San Suu Kyi: Myanmar sentences ex-leader to jail for corruption
Source: BBC
Aung San Suu Kyi: Myanmar sentences ex-leader to jail for corruption
By Frances Mao
BBC News
27 April 2022
A court in military-ruled Myanmar has found former leader Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of corruption, the latest verdict in a series of secret trials.
Ms Suu Kyi has been under house arrest since February 2021 when a military coup ousted her elected government.
The 76-year-old Nobel laureate has been charged with a raft of criminal offences including voter fraud.
She denies all of the accusations and rights groups have condemned the court trials as a sham.
The closed-door hearings in the capital Nay Pyi Taw have been shut to the public and media, and Ms Suu Kyi's lawyers forbidden from speaking to journalists.
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