Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi gets four years in prison for sedition | Abroad

Suu Kyi “was sentenced to two years in prison under Section 505(b) and two years in prison under the Natural Disaster Act,” spokesman Zaw Min Tun said. Former president Win Myint was also sentenced to four years on the basis of these laws. According to the spokesperson, the two do not have to go to prison yet, pending other trials against them. Suu Kyi has yet to face charges of corruption and electoral fraud.

Suu Kyi and other politicians have been in detention since the military coup on February 1. The coup was carried out because the military, according to the army, had committed fraud in the parliamentary elections in November 2020. Suu Kyi’s ruling party became even bigger in those elections, further reducing the military’s power. It was the second democratic election in decades.

Myanmar was previously a military dictatorship for fifty years. During that period, Suu Kyi committed herself to democracy, for which she was imprisoned for years, for which she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. She is not undisputed. She is accused of not doing enough to protect the Rohingya minority in Myanmar. Many hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh in recent years because of violence against them.

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