{"id":20584,"date":"2021-12-06T03:48:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T08:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=20584"},"modified":"2021-12-06T03:48:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T08:48:33","slug":"aung-san-suu-kyi-myanmar-court-sentences-ousted-leader-to-four-years-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2021\/12\/06\/aung-san-suu-kyi-myanmar-court-sentences-ousted-leader-to-four-years-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Aung San Suu Kyi: Myanmar court sentences ousted leader to four years jail"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to four years in prison, the first in a series of verdicts that could jail her for life.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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She was found guilty on charges of inciting dissent and breaking Covid rules under a natural disasters law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ms Suu Kyi faces 11 charges in total, which have been widely condemned as unjust. She has denied all charges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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She has been under house arrest since a military coup in February which toppled her elected civilian government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It is not clear when or if Ms Suu Kyi will be placed in prison.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Co-defendant Win Myint, the former president and Ms Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party ally, was also jailed on Monday for four years under the same charges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Rights group Amnesty called the charges “bogus”, saying it was the “latest example of the military’s determination to eliminate all opposition and suffocate freedoms in Myanmar.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Suu Kyi ‘struggling’<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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The 76-year-old has been slapped with an array of charges, including multiple counts of corruption and violating the official secrets act.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In one case, Ms Suu Kyi was convicted of violating Covid restrictions for waving at a group of supporters during last year’s election campaign while wearing a mask and face shield.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In the other she was found guilty of inciting unrest for a statement calling for public opposition to the coup, put out by her party after she had already been taken into custody.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Suu Kyi’s lawyers, who had been the sole source of information on the legal proceedings, have also been served with gag orders forbidding them from releasing information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Little has been seen or heard of her apart from her brief court appearances.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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