This is one of the multiple procedures against the Nobel Peace Prize winner since the military coup of February 1st.
Le Monde with AFP
A Burmese court sentenced, Monday, December 6, the former head of the civilian government Aung San Suu Kyi to four years in prison for incitement to public disorders and violation of the health rules related to COVID-19, informed The France-Presse agency (AFP) a junta spokesman.
The Nobel Peace Prize “was sentenced to two years in prison under section 505 (b) and two years in prison under the Natural Disaster Act,” said AFP ZAW MIN TUN.
Former President Win Myint was sentenced to the same sentence, he said, adding that they would not be conducted in prison for the moment. “They will have to deal with other charges from the places where they are currently staying” in the capital, Naypyidaw, “he added, without giving more details.
Aung San Suu Kyi, aged 76, has been held since the generals reversed his government in the early hours of the 1st February, bringing an end to a brief democratic parenthesis in Burma.
Propurification of charges
The Junta regularly accused the counts against it, including the violation of the law on official secrets, corruption and electoral fraud. It risks dozens of prison years if it is convicted of all charges.
The hearings are held in camera. Neither the Junta nor the official press communicate information on the trials for Aung San Suu Kyi, whose partisans denounce political maneuvers. Suu Kyi’s lawyers have recently been prohibited from talking to the media.
According to a local human rights NGO, more than 1,300 people were killed and more than 10,000 arrested as part of dissenting repression since the coup.