Free Aung San Suu Kyi Now!

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The Nobel laureate and celebrated iconic leader of Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi has been found guilty on some 18 counts by the military styled government that has been running the show. Out of these 18 counts, there are some 11 offences of corruption.

If proven guilty, she would have to serve a lifetime in prison where the cumulative sentence comes to 190 years. After having defeated her efforts to create a stable government and democracy through a military coup, she was kept in house arrest and later in jail since February of last year.

Pre her detention, Ms. Suu Kyi had held the country’s affairs for a span of 5 years but was later overthrown from her position of state counselor and de facto leader of the country.

Obviously, there are reasons for her to deny these allegations, which she has termed as ‘absurd.’ It was not immediately clear if Suu Kyi would be transferred to a prison. She has been held in an undisclosed location, where junta leader Min Aung Hlaing said she could remain after earlier guilty verdicts in other cases.

Fabricated charges center around allegations that Suu Kyi, 76 had accepted 11.4 kg (402 oz) of gold and cash payments totaling $600,000 from her protege-turned-accuser, former Yangon chief minister Phyo Min Thein.

Her political supporters have been vocal in saying that all charges against her have been trumped up to deny her come back, in anyway. The international community has dismissed the trials as farcical and has demanded her immediate release.

 

Since her arrest on the morning of the February 1 coup last year, Suu Kyi has been charged with multiple crimes from violations of electoral and state secrets laws to incitement and corruption. 

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