Myanmar Court Convicts Aung San Suu Kyi Of Vote Fraud

A military junta court in Myanmar sentenced the country's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to three years imprisonment on charges of election fraud on Friday, adding more jail time to the 17 years, which she is already serving for other offenses prosecuted, as per a report.

The military-appointed commission accused three of them of being involved in election fraud and lawless actions. The commission claimed more than 11 million irregularities in voter lists that could have let voters cast multiple ballots.

The court along with Suu Kyi also charged two senior members of the former government with three years imprisonment. The latest verdict might also sabotage the future of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party following the government’s explicit threats to dissolve it before the 2023 new elections.

 Aung San Suu Kyi Convicted Of Vote Fraud

Suu Kyi has now been convicted of 20 years in prison after the military coup on her government in February 2021. Aung San Suu Kyi convicted of vote fraud. She is also facing over a dozen of other charges, including illegally importing walkie-talkies, five counts of corruption, violating coronavirus restrictions, and sedition.

Suu Kyi was under house arrest until April this year. Suu Kyi received a five-year prison sentence in April. Last month, a junta court sentenced the former State Counsellor to six years in jail. Earlier, has been convicted of six other cases. Previously, Suu Kyi spent around 15 years under house arrest during different junta regimes in the Buddhist-majority country. Since 2009, Suu Kyi has been imprisoned for the second time.

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Suu Kyi’s party won the general election in 2020, but the army still seized power in February citing electoral irregularities. However, Independent election observers did not find any major irregularities. The military coup prompted widespread peaceful protests that were disrupted by military force. According Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, a local monitoring group, over 1,500 people were killed in the conflict, which the UN also called it a civil war.