Myanmar court extends Aung San Suu Kyi's prison sentence to 26 years - CNN

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A tribunal successful military-run Myanmar has sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s deposed erstwhile person and Nobel Peace Prize winner, to 3 further years successful jailhouse for corruption, a root acquainted with the lawsuit told CNN, extending her full situation word to 26 years.

Wednesday’s verdict is the latest successful a drawstring of punishments meted retired against the 77-year-old, a figurehead of absorption to decades of subject regularisation who led Myanmar for 5 years earlier being forced from powerfulness successful a coup successful aboriginal 2021.

Suu Kyi was recovered blameworthy of receiving $500,000 successful bribes from a section tycoon, a complaint she denied, according to the source. Her lawyers person said the bid of crimes leveled against her are politically motivated.

Suu Kyi is presently being held successful solitary confinement astatine a situation successful the superior Naypyidaw.

Last month, Suu Kyi was found guilty of electoral fraud and sentenced to 3 years successful situation with hard labor, successful a proceedings related to the November 2020 wide predetermination that her National League for Democracy won successful a landslide, defeating a enactment created by the military.

It was the archetypal clip Suu Kyi had been sentenced to hard labour since the 2021 subject coup. She was fixed the aforesaid punishment successful a abstracted proceedings nether a erstwhile medication successful 2009 but that condemnation was commuted.

Suu Kyi has besides antecedently been recovered blameworthy of offenses ranging from graft to predetermination violations.

Rights groups person repeatedly expressed concerns astir the punishment of pro-democracy activists successful the state since the subject seized power.

Also sentenced Wednesday was Toru Kubota, 26, a Japanese journalist who received an further 3 years successful situation connected charges of violating an migration law, Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs told CNN.

That condemnation comes successful summation to the 10 years Kubota received past week connected charges of sedition and violating a instrumentality connected physics communications. Those charges subordinate to his filming of an anti-government protestation successful July, a Japanese diplomat said.

The ministry said the Japanese authorities volition proceed to inquire Myanmar authorities to merchandise Kubota “at the earliest imaginable date.”

Kubota was arrested by plainclothes constabulary successful Yangon, wherever helium was filming a documentary that helium had been moving connected for respective years, according to a Change.org petition calling for his release.

In July, the subject junta executed 2 salient pro-democracy activists and 2 different men accused of terrorism, pursuing a proceedings condemned by the UN and rights groups.