One of the verdicts expected in the river trial brought by the Burmese junta against ex-leader Aung San Suu Kyi was postponed on Monday, April 25.
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The court did not issue a decision today
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In this part of the trial, the Nobel Peace Prize winner is charged with corruption, accused of having received 600,000 dollars and more than eleven kilos of gold in bribes from the former minister in charge of the Yangon region. , Phyo Min Thein.
She faces up to fifteen years in prison.
Aung San Suu Kyi, 76, has been detained since the February 1, 2021 military coup that ended a decade of democratic transition in Burma.
She is targeted by a multitude of charges: violation of a law on state secrets dating from the colonial era, electoral fraud, sedition, corruption...
Already sentenced to six years in prison, in particular for non-compliance with restrictions linked to the coronavirus pandemic and incitement to public unrest, she risks decades in prison in total.
The ex-leader is serving the beginning of her sentence under house arrest, in the place where she has been held incommunicado for more than a year and where she must remain for the duration of her trial.
The latter is held behind closed doors, his lawyers being prohibited from speaking to the press and international organizations.
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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, twenty years for one of his collaborators.
Others went into exile or went into hiding.
The Nobel laureate spent nearly fifteen years under house arrest under previous military dictatorships.
The February 2021 coup plunged the country into chaos.
Nearly 1,800 civilians were killed by security forces and more than 13,000 arrested, according to a local observer.
Militias have taken up arms against the junta across Burma.
