2023-08-01 07:12:59
The military junta in Myanmar has announced that it will reduce the prison sentence of de facto Prime Minister Aung San Suu Kyi as part of a mass amnesty. The 78-year-old would be pardoned on five counts, state media reported on Tuesday. Former President Win Myint’s sentence would also be reduced, it said. However, it is not a full pardon, news site Myanmar Now reported.
Suu Kyi has been in detention since the military coup in the Southeast Asian country in early 2021. Last week she was surprisingly transferred from prison to a government building in the capital, Naypyidaw. She has appealed the conviction on charges ranging from sedition to electoral fraud and corruption. She has denied all allegations. “She remains under house arrest,” a well-informed source told Archyde.com on Tuesday.
The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner and longtime leader of the democratic opposition was deposed as de facto head of government in the course of the military coup in February 2021. She was later sentenced to a total of 33 years in prison by a court controlled by the military junta. Observers spoke of a show trial. Since then, Suu Kyi has been in solitary confinement.
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