According to a source familiar with the case, a Myanmar military court sentenced former leader Aung San Suu Kyi to three years in prison for electoral fraud during the 2020 elections, which her party easily won.
Suu Kyi was “sentenced to three years in jail with hard labour,” according to the source, who added that the 77-year-old Nobel laureate appeared to be in good health.
The former leader, who has been imprisoned since the putsch last year, has already been convicted of corruption and a slew of other offences by a secretive junta court and sentenced to 17 years in prison.
Although international observers judged the election was mainly free and fair, the military claimed significant voting fraud during the November 2020 election, which Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party easily won.
The military has since invalidated the results, claiming that it discovered more than 11 million cases of voter fraud.
In a speech broadcast last month, Min Aung Hlaing did not specify a date for new elections but said they could only be conducted when the country was “calm and stable.”
According to a local monitoring group, the military’s crackdown on dissent has resulted in the deaths of over 2,200 people and the detention of over 15,000 individuals since it seized control.
