Suu Kyi gets jail with hard labour
A Myanmar junta court yesterday sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to three years in jail "with hard labour", for electoral fraud in the 2020 polls that her party won in a landslide, a source said.
The latest sentence, handed down by the closed court, takes the total jail time the Nobel laureate and democracy figurehead is facing to two decades.
Separately, a court in Myanmar has jailed a former British ambassador and her spouse for one year for violating immigration laws, sources and media said yesterday.
Vicky Bowman, who runs a group promoting ethical business practices in Myanmar, and her Burmese husband Htein Lin, an artist and former political prisoner, were arrested on Aug 24 for staying at an address different to the one she had registered under.
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