Aung San Suu Kyi

2022 - 12 - 31

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Myanmar sentences Aung San Suu Kyi to 7 years in final corruption ... (Financial Times)

Former leader faces up to 33 years in prison after being deposed in a military coup in 2021.

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Court convicts ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi on corruption in ... (PBS NewsHour)

The court's action leaves her with a total of 33 years to serve in prison after a series of politically tinged prosecutions since the army toppled her ...

“The convictions aim to both permanently sideline her, as well as undermine and ultimately negate her NLD party’s landslide victory in the November 2020 election.” The official also said both Suu Kyi and Win Myint appeared to be in good health. “Due process and a free and fair trial were never remotely possible under the circumstances of this political persecution against her.” The U.N., after its special envoy Noeleen Heyzer met in August with Senior Gen. The military has declared NUG to be an outlawed “terrorist organization.” The trial was closed to the media, diplomats and spectators, and her lawyers were barred by a gag order from talking about it.

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Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi's ludicrous trial ends as coup ... (Amnesty International)

The same goes for the charges against the thousands of others languishing behind bars in Myanmar's notorious prisons and interrogation facilities across the ...

It has also executed four people in its first use of the death penalty in decades. “The UN Security Council should impose a comprehensive arms embargo, including on aviation fuel, and targeted sanctions against military leaders. “From start to finish, the trumped-up cases against Aung San Suu Kyi have been politically motivated, unfair, and completely lacking in anything resembling transparency.

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Aung San Suu Kyi's Myanmar trials end with 7 more years in jail (Reuters)

Deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi was convicted of five counts of corruption on Friday and jailed for seven more years, an informed source said, ...

member states to respect the results. "The trumped-up cases against Aung San Suu Kyi have been politically motivated, unfair, and completely lacking in anything resembling transparency. "With (Suu Kyi) in prison, the junta will attempt to hold sham elections next year, and it'll be desperate for U.N. "The Myanmar junta's farcical, totally unjust parade of charges and convictions against Aung San Suu Kyi amount to politically motivated punishment designed to hold her behind bars for the rest of her life," its deputy Asia director Phil Robertson said. Register for free to Reuters and know the full story The source, who asked not to be identified due to the junta's sensitivity about the trials, said Suu Kyi "is in good health".

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Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi's jail time extended to 33 years ... (Economic Times)

Myanmar military court sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to seven more years in prison, bringing her total sentence to 33 years.

[United Nations Security Council](/topic/united-nations-security-council)called for an end to the violence in [Myanmar](/topic/myanmar)and the release of all political prisoners. He had been in and out of hospital in recent months after a tumor was found on his colon. She was found guilty of corruption by a court because she did not follow regulations when renting a helicopter for a government minister.

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Factbox: Court rulings against Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi (Reuters)

Myanmar's 77-year-old former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been ordered to serve a total of 33 years in prison after convictions on multiple charges since her ...

Ordered to serve three years in prison, Oct. Convicted of five counts of corruption, ordered to serve seven years in prison. Ordered to serve six years in prison, Aug. Ordered to serve two years in prison, Dec. Ordered to serve two years and one year in jail, respectively, sentences served concurrently, Jan. - Intent to incite, over a letter sent by her party to international organisations, while she was in detention and denied visitors, asking them not to recognise a military government.

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Aung San Suu Kyi jailed for 33 years (台北時報)

Ousted Burmese state councilor Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to another seven years in jail as her long series of trials ended yesterday, with the Nobel ...

As well as returning the mandatory service period to one year, the government is enacting other changes affecting the nation’s military composition, affirming that the volunteer force is to be the nation’s main military arm and establishing a standing defense force mainly ‘NECESSARY’: Beijing said the drills, which coincided with city and county leaders taking up their posts, were a reaction to a ‘provocation’ by Taiwan and the US China’s military said it staged “strike drills” in the sea and airspace around Taiwan yesterday in response to an unspecified “provocation” by Taipei and Washington. China staged war games around Taiwan in August following a visit to Taipei by US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and on Saturday it condemned the US for a new defense authorization law that boosts military assistance for Taiwan. That represented a significant increase from the NT$700 billion the chipmaker announced in 2018 on the Tainan “giga-fab," dubbed Fab 18, to produce 5-nanometer chips, and establish a research and development (R&D) team. COMMITMENT: The company expects its 3-nanometer chips to help the creation of end products worth US$1.5 trillion over five years, including supercomputers Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) yesterday raised its investment on an advanced Tainan factory to a total of NT$1.86 trillion (US$60.5 billion) to boost advanced technologies capacity including 3-nanometer, after its plans to produce chips in the US triggered concerns at home over technology outflow and talent drain. But the regime is unlikely to be in any rush to make such decisions.”

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Myanmar's Suu Kyi faces 33-year prison sentence after final closed ... (Axios)

She's already serving a 26-year prison sentence after being convicted in other cases that rights groups have denounced as a "sham."

[nearly 2,700](https://aappb.org/?lang=en)people [have been killed](https://www.axios.com/2021/03/30/myanmar-death-toll-tops-500-garbage-strike)during [military crackdowns](https://www.axios.com/2021/05/18/myanmar-military-crackdown-death-toll-tops-800)on pro-democracy protests following Suu Kyi's ouster. [called](https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/02/1083852) for the "immediate release" of the 77-year-old and all those detained by the junta. [estimates](https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/10/1129907#:~:text=At%20least%2070%2C000%20people%20have,the%20High%20Commissioner's%20Office%2C%20OHCHR.)that more than 1 million people have been internally displaced and another 70,000 have fled Myanmar since the coup. [several different charges](https://www.axios.com/2022/08/15/myanmar-suu-kyi-6-prison)that mostly relate [to corruption](https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/myanmar-court-sentences-suu-kyi-australian-economist-3-years-jail-source-2022-09-29/), but also include illegally importing and using [walkie-talkies](https://www.axios.com/2021/02/03/aung-san-suu-kyi-charged-myanmar-military-coup)and violating the [Official Secrets Act](https://www.axios.com/2022/01/10/myanmar-court-sentences-suu-kyi-prison-walkie-talkies). [military overthrew](https://www.axios.com/2021/02/01/aung-san-suu-kyi-detained-myanmar-military) her democratically elected government in February 2021. [Aung San Suu Kyi](https://www.axios.com/2021/12/06/myanmar-aung-san-suu-kyi-sentence-prison) guilty of five counts of corruption on Friday, [per AP](https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-aung-san-suu-kyi-legal-proceedings-prisons-crime-92e782d0c0616f1cf2dd83fe5c4fd682?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_05).

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