প্রকাশ: 25/04/2022
Deposed Myanmar
leader Aung San Suu Kyi faces a possible 15 years in prison on Monday, when a
court in the military-ruled country is scheduled to deliver a verdict in the
first of multiple corruption cases against her.
Since being forced from power in a coup last year, Nobel
laureate Suu Kyi has been charged with offences ranging from incitement and
graft to violations of electoral and state secrets laws, which carry combined
maximum sentences of more than 150 years.
She has been found guilty of two lesser offences so far and
sentenced to six years, in a series of trials that could last years, leaving
little chance for a political comeback for the figurehead of the country's
struggle against dictatorship.
According to a source familiar with the trial, the judge is
set to decide on Monday on charges that Suu Kyi accepted bribes totalling
$600,000 and 11.4 kg of gold from Phyo Min Thein, a former Yangon chief
minister once seen as her future successor.
Phyo Min Thein, a protege of Suu Kyi, in October testified
that he gave money and gold to her in exchange for her support. Suu Kyi has
dismissed his allegations, which the junta aired separately on national
television, as "absurd."
Suu Kyi, 76, is being held in an undisclosed location, without
visitors. She denies all charges.
The military has restricted information about her trial and
imposed a gag order on her lawyers. The international community calls the trial
a farce.
The junta has said Suu Kyi is being given due process by an
independent court.
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