Aung San Suu Kyi: Myanmar's deposed leader to serve four more years in prison

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Aung San Suu Kyi: Myanmar's deposed leader to serve four more years in prison
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Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been found guilty of charges relating to the possession and import of walkie-talkies and breaking COVID-19 restrictions and has been jailed for another four years.

If found guilty of all the offences she is accused of, she could spend the rest of her life behind bars. She denies all the charges.

"This is yet another example of how the junta is just making things up as they go along to justify their own existence," said Manny Maung, Myanmar researcher for Human Rights Watch. Ms Suu Kyi's popular National League for Democracy party won a resounding victory in a general election in November 2020.

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