State Counselor of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi. Archival photo NEW DELHI, Jan 10 Former Myanmar state adviser, de facto prime minister and Nobel laureate, 76-year-old Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to four more years in prison, Bangkok Post reported, citing sources . According to the interlocutor of the publication, the verdict was passed on several charges, including the storage of unlicensed radios. This was the last of many court decisions that could have imprisoned her for decades. The Foreign Ministry answered the question about the imposition of sanctions against the military of Myanmar The new term will be added to the previous sentences. Previously, Aung San Suu Kyi received four years in prison for inciting riot and violating measures against COVID-19. Former President Vin Myint was sentenced to the same prison term on the same charges. Later, the head of the State Administrative Council (military government) of Myanmar, Senior General Min Aung Hlain, with his power reduced their detention to two years, they will serve in their current imprisonment. residences. The Myanmar military took power in the country on February 1, using the constitutional mechanism for the transfer of power in an emergency. They accused the former ruling NLD party of rigging the November 2020 general elections in Myanmar. The civilian authorities refused to take note of the results of the army investigation into the alleged electoral fraud, as well as to initiate their own investigation. The military arrested the country's civilian leaders on February 1, prosecuting them in a number of administrative and criminal cases, blocked the first meeting of the first session of the new parliament, elected in the November elections, and then disbanded the national electoral commission and created a new one, stating that power would again pass to the civilian government. after the end of the state of emergency, which was introduced for two years, and new elections. the military sparked a massive protest movement that, after months of street clashes between demonstrators and the police, in which more than a thousand people died, turned into an armed struggle against the military government. The opposition has created an underground alternative Government of National Unity, which includes former NLD deputies and functionaries and representatives of ethnic political forces, which is the inspiration for protests and armed struggle.
