A court in Myanmar's ruling junta on Wednesday (May 4th) rejected an appeal by former leader Aung San Suu Kyi against the five-year prison sentence for corruption handed down to her last week, a close source said. folder.
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The appeal against the verdict, filed by the Nobel Peace Prize team, was "
summarily dismissed
", the source said.
The former head of the civilian government was sentenced last week under the anti-corruption law to an additional five years in prison during a river trial, denounced as political by the international community.
She had already been given a six-year prison sentence in recent months.
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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 accused of a multitude of offenses (violation of a law on state secrets dating from the colonial era, electoral fraud, sedition, corruption...) and risks decades in prison in total.
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