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Myanmar’s Ousted Leader Gets 33 Years in Prison

January 3, 2023 by DC Editors Leave a Comment

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Myanmar’s Ousted Leader Gets 33 Years in Prison
Mike Ives and Matt Stevens report this development in The New York Times. Here is an excerpt:

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s ousted civilian leader, was found guilty of corruption on Friday and sentenced to seven years in prison, almost two years after she was first detained by the military in a coup.

Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, 77, a Nobel laureate, had already begun serving a 26-year prison sentence in connection with more than a dozen charges she has faced since being detained. The additional sentence she received on Friday makes it likely that she will remain behind bars for the rest of her life, unless the junta reduces her sentence to house arrest, overturns its own ruling, or falls from power. Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi’s lawyers plan to appeal, according to a source familiar with the proceedings.

Friday’s verdict, delivered in a courtroom that sits inside a prison in the capital, Naypyidaw, was expected to draw international condemnation.

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Filed Under: International Democracy Tagged With: Aung Suu Kyi, Burma, Dictatorships, Political Dissidents

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