Final week, the Nobel laureate was convicted of accepting a bribe of $600,000 money.
Yangon:
A Myanmar junta courtroom on Wednesday rejected an enchantment by ousted chief Aung San Suu Kyi in opposition to a five-year sentence for corruption handed down final week, a junta spokesman informed AFP.
Since a coup ousted her authorities in February final yr, plunging Myanmar into upheaval, Suu Kyi has been in army custody and faces a raft of fees that would jail her for greater than 150 years.
Final week, the Nobel laureate was convicted of accepting a bribe of $600,000 money and gold bars — a cost she mentioned was “absurd”, in keeping with her lawyer.
The junta’s “Union Supreme Court docket rejected the enchantment of her sentence,” junta spokesman Zaw Min Tun informed AFP.
Suu Kyi will problem the most recent choice in the next courtroom, a supply with data of the case informed AFP after the ruling.
She had “determined to proceed until the tip of the method to examine the scenario of the rule of regulation right here,” the supply mentioned.
There was no date given for the recent enchantment, which can be heard within the Union Supreme Court docket in entrance of two judges.
Earlier than her corruption conviction, the 76-year-old Suu Kyi had already been sentenced to 6 years in jail for incitement in opposition to the army, breaching Covid-19 guidelines and breaking a telecommunications regulation.
Appeals in opposition to these convictions are presently pending within the courts, the supply mentioned.
Suu Kyi will stay beneath home arrest at an unknown location within the military-built capital Naypyidaw whereas she fights different fees.
She faces a raft of different trials, together with for allegedly violating the official secrets and techniques act, a number of counts of corruption and electoral fraud.
Journalists have been barred from attending the courtroom hearings and Suu Kyi’s attorneys have been banned from talking to the media.
‘Sport in a courtroom’
The rejection of the enchantment marked “one other stage within the present trial,” David Mathieson, an unbiased analyst engaged on Myanmar, informed AFP.
“That is sport in a courtroom, a type of psychological cruelty.”
Beneath a earlier junta regime, Suu Kyi spent lengthy spells beneath home arrest in her household’s colonial-era lakeside mansion in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest metropolis.
At present, she is confined to an undisclosed location within the capital, along with her hyperlinks to the surface world restricted to transient pre-trial conferences along with her attorneys.
The junta has rebuffed requests by overseas diplomats to fulfill Suu Kyi whereas she is on trial.
The coup final yr sparked widespread protests and unrest that the army has sought to crush by pressure.
Preventing has flared with established ethnic insurgent teams in border areas and throughout the nation “Folks’s Defence Forces” have sprung as much as battle junta troops.
In line with a neighborhood monitoring group, the crackdown has left greater than 1,800 civilians lifeless whereas over 13,000 have been arrested.
Suu Kyi has been the face of Myanmar’s democratic hopes for greater than 30 years, however her earlier sentences already imply she is more likely to miss elections the junta has mentioned it plans to carry by subsequent yr.
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