Aung San Suu Kyi, under house arrest for more than a year, was placed in quarantine after cases of Covid-19 were detected in her entourage, a source close to AFP told AFP on Monday March 28. ex-Burmese leader.
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“
Some people around her have contracted Covid-19 (…) She is being kept in quarantine although she is not infected herself
,” said this source.
Targeted by a multitude of legal proceedings since her arrest, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner has not appeared in court since Thursday, the same source added.
The ex-leader and her staff have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to those around her.
Aung San Suu Kyi, 76, has been detained since her government was overthrown by the military on February 1, 2021. She faces a host of charges: violation of a secret law State dating from the colonial era, electoral fraud, illegal pressure on the electoral commission, sedition, incitement to public unrest, corruption... Already sentenced to six years in prison, she must remain under house arrest for the duration of her trial which is being held behind closed doors in a specially set up court in the capital, Naypyidaw.
His lawyers are prohibited from speaking to the press and international organisations.
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Several of his relatives have already been sentenced to heavy sentences: capital punishment for a former parliamentarian, 75 years in prison for a former minister, 20 years for one of his collaborators.
Others went into exile or went into hiding.
The coup plunged the country into chaos.
More than 1,700 civilians were killed by the security forces, according to a local NGO, the UN denouncing "
probable war crimes and crimes against humanity
".
Despite this bloody repression, large portions of the territory still escape the control of the generals.
Local militias supported by ethnic minorities have taken up arms in these regions and are carrying out guerrilla actions.
More than 500,000 Burmese have been displaced in the violence since the putsch, according to the UN.
