Popular leader receives a two-year prison sentence and has more severe charges to come
06 December 2021 - 19:58
President Win Myint was also sentenced to four years in prison, said a source on condition of anonymity, as the court delivered its first verdicts in numerous cases against Suu Kyi and other civilian leaders detained by the military in a coup on February 1. A military spokesperson did not respond to attempts by Reuters to reach him for comment on the sentencing, which was widely reported in domestic media.
Dr Sasa, a spokesperson for Myanmar’s shadow civilian government set up after the coup, called on the international community to step up sanctions against Myanmar’s military rulers. Suu Kyi’s supporters say the cases against her are baseless and designed to end her political career and tie her up in legal proceedings while the military consolidates power.“I don’t expect anything out of this broken justice system,” Maw Htun Aung, a deputy minister in the opposition parallel government, told Reuters after the sentencing.
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