Myanmar Courtroom Sentences Suu Kyi to three Years for Voting Fraud
BANGKOK (AP) — A courtroom in Myanmar on Friday sentenced the nation’s ousted chief Aung San Suu Kyi to some years’ imprisonment after discovering her accountable of involvement in election fraud.
The ruling provides additional jail time to the 17 years she is already serving for various offenses. It moreover imperils the survival of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy celebration following the federal authorities’s express threats to dissolve it earlier than a model new election the military has promised will occur in 2023.
Suu Kyi’s celebration obtained the the 2020 elementary election in a landslide victory. The military seized vitality from Suu Kyi’s elected authorities on Feb. 1, 2021, saying it acted attributable to alleged widespread voter fraud. Independent election observers did not uncover any very important irregularities.
Two senior members of Suu Kyi’s former authorities have been co-defendants all by way of the case and likewise obtained three-year jail sentences.