Explained | The legal battles of Aung San Suu Kyi since the 2021 coup in Myanmar
The HinduThe story so far: On Friday, September 2, a court set up by Myanmar’s military leadership sentenced deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, 77, to three years in prison with hard labour, declaring her guilty of having committed electoral fraud. Ms. Suu Kyi, a Nobel laureate and the face of Myanmar's opposition to years of military rule, has been in detention since February 2021, when the junta took over the administration in a coup. The cases against Aung San Suu Kyi Myanmar’s military regime, or Tatmadaw, when it took over on February 1 last year, arrested the entire civilian leadership including Ms. Suu Kyi, the de facto leader of the country’s short-lived democratic administration. Ms. Suu Kyi’s image as a defender of human rights has been tainted since 2017 when the international community called her out for not responding to the military crackdown on Rohingyas in Myanmar’s Rakhine province.