Aung San Suu Kyi: Myanmar’s former leader sentenced to three years of hard labor
CNNCNN — Aung San Suu Kyi, the deposed former leader of Myanmar and Nobel Peace Prize winner, has been found guilty of electoral fraud by a court in the military-run country and sentenced to three years in prison with hard labor. However, this is the first time Suu Kyi – a figurehead of opposition to decades of military rule in the country – has been sentenced to hard labor since the country’s most recent military coup in 2021. Three months after that election the military seized power to prevent Suu Kyi’s party forming a government, alleging electoral fraud. That verdict, which raised her total prison time to 17 years, coincided with a visit by the UN’s Special Envoy on Myanmar, who had come to investigate the deteriorating human rights situation in the country.