The old director, already sentenced recently to two years in prison, is under numerous charges, and risks several decades of detention for all the facts that are reproached for him.
Le Monde with AFP
Already sentenced to two years in prison in early December, the former Burmese Aung San Suu Kyi leader should know, Monday, December 20, the verdict in another component of his river. It risks, in theory, three years in prison for import and possession of Walkie Talkies but this is only one of the many accusations that, according to analysts, aim to decay it definitively from the political arena.
The Nobel Prize winner, 76, is assigned to residence since the military coup that overturned it on the morning of the February. This time, the charges concern the first hours of the coup, when soldiers and police burst into his home and would have found it in possession of unauthorized material.
In the course of the instruction, members of the team led the RAID admitted during interrogations that they did not have a search warrant, according to a source close to the file. It is unlikely that Aung San Suu Kyi is conducted in prison on Monday, and it is possible that the Junta Tribunal repels the date of the verdict.
A closed doors
At the beginning of the month, it was sentenced to four years in imprisonment for public disorders and violation of the health rules related to COVID, a verdict strongly condemned by the international community. The leader of the junta, Min Aung Hlaing, subsequently commuted the sentence to two years in prison, and announced that she would serve her sentence under house arrest in the capital, Naypyidaw.
The media are not allowed to attend its closed in camera at a special court of the capital. The junta also banned his legal team to speak to the press and international organizations.
The junta has regularly added new charges, especially for corruption, punishable by fifteen years in prison, and for electoral fraud during the elections that his party, the National League for Democracy, won hands up in November 2020.
For almost ten months, the lady of Rangoun is confined to a secret place with a small team. His link with the outside is limited to brief meetings with his lawyers, who held him informed of the situation in the country and relayed messages to his supporters. The Aung San Suu Kyi Defense team was the only source of information on the trial in camera. In the meantime, several trials have sentenced to severe penalties from other important members of the LND. A former minister was sentenced to 75 years in prison in early December, while a close collaborator of the former government chipe has scared twenty years.