Naypyidaw Jail Court docket has sentenced Myanmar’s former State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi to an additional three years in jail on a cost of election fraud, sources near the courtroom instructed RFA.
Friday’s ruling comes on prime of 17 years of sentences for 10 earlier instances.
“The earlier instances had been ordered with out laborious labor. This sentence was imprisonment with laborious labor along with the utmost punishment. I’ve discovered that the attorneys will proceed to attraction,” a supply near the courtroom mentioned.
The case was introduced on the grounds that Suu Kyi used undue affect on the Union Election Fee (UEC) underneath Part 130 (a) of the Penal Code. The identical cost was introduced towards former President Win Myint and former Union Cupboard Workplace Minister Min Thu, who additionally acquired three-year sentences.
Kyaw Htwe, a member of the Nationwide League for Democracy (NLD) Central Working Committee, mentioned that Suu Kyi and the NLD-led authorities leaders didn’t use any undue affect relating to the election, and the UEC, which was in control of the 2020 election, acted in accordance with authorized procedures.
Suu Kyi testified at her trial on July 15 that she didn’t use improper affect on the Election Fee relating to the 2020 election and acted in accordance with the legislation.
The 2020 election was free and honest though it had a couple of weaknesses, based on home and worldwide election monitoring teams.
Nonetheless, the army seized energy on February 1, 2021 with the pretext that the election was rigged.
A complete of 505 folks, together with Suu Kyi, Win Myint, NLD-led authorities members and people in control of the 2020 Election Fee, have been charged with election fraud, the army council’s new election fee mentioned at a press convention in Naypyidaw on August 17.
Mandalay Area Chief Minister Zaw Myint Maung was sentenced to a few years in jail underneath Part 130 (a) of the Penal Code.
Kayin State Chief Minister Nan Khin Htwe Myint was sentenced to a few years in jail and Mon State Chief Minister Aye Zan was sentenced to 2 years in jail by the army council’s courts.
Hla Thein, chairman of the Election Fee, together with Than Htay and Myint Naing, who had been members of the UEC through the NLD-led Authorities, had been all sentenced to a few years in jail underneath Part 130 (a) of the Penal Code.
Aung San Suu Kyi was charged with 19 instances after the army coup and is at the moment serving 20 years in jail for 11 instances.
On June 22, Suu Kyi, 77, was transferred to solitary confinement in Naypyidaw Jail. She nonetheless faces trials for an additional eight instances within the jail courtroom.
