Burmese court sentences former leader Aung Sa Suu Kyi to 4 years in prison

In a closed-door trial, to which her lawyers have not even been able to access, the former leader of

,

(76 years old), was sentenced on Monday to four years in prison after being found guilty of the

.

Since the democratically elected Burmese government at the polls was overthrown by the military on February 1,

, who until then was the councilor of state and de facto leader, has been under house arrest, in total isolation.

It has been more than 10 months in which

that can carry combined maximum sentences of up to 102 years in prison: corruption, sedition, bypassing the restrictions of the pandemic, violating a law on state secrets, importation illegal walkie-talkies, accepting $ 600,000 in bribes and 11 kilos of gold, buying a helicopter ...

supporters

say all of the charges against her, totaling 11, are politically motivated and designed to end the political life of a woman who spent decades fighting for democracy in her country, standing up to the previous military governments, which have already locked her up for 15 years under house arrest. Her party,

, which she founded in 1988, won a resounding victory in last year's elections, but the military refused to accept the result.

Suu Kyi

, daughter of

independence hero

General

, became a global icon of democracy and won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. Years later, she managed to return her country to a very similar system. that of a democracy with her as the de facto leader. But the light of a figure seen as a beacon for human rights was extinguished when she tolerated the repression against the

minority

by the same military that had arrested her in the past and who ended up locking her up again after the last coup d'état. .

In October,

appeared in court in the capital

to give her testimony and defend herself against the charges against her.

His statement, unsurprisingly, was not made public.

Even the military authorities do not allow their lawyers to speak to the press or international observers.

"

has denied a charge of incitement to cause public alarm in her first testimony in court since her arrest. She knew how to defend her innocence very well," reported the local newspaper

, which claimed to have direct contact with one of the lawyers of the accused.

According to some media in the country, the military regime would have imposed a gag order on the five lawyers of

legal team

, who had already commiserated in court over alleged letters on his behalf and that of his party that were sent to the embassies urging them to condemn the military regime and not recognize the Junta that had taken power. In the case of the letters, the court controlled by the

and based on a crime of "incitement", sentenced her today to four years.

Since the coup, a Burmese NGO, the

, has counted more than 1,303 civilians killed at the hands of the military in an attempt to crush the resistance, and the arrest of another 10,600, including more than one one hundred minors. The military only recognized 248 deaths.

A

human rights expert

even spoke of "crimes against humanity." In addition, the humanitarian, political and health crisis has erased progress to reduce poverty in a nation where six million people live on less than

and a quarter of children suffer from malnutrition. According

, more than 200,000 civilians have been displaced and around three million people need urgent humanitarian assistance.

The

has emptied the streets of the great demonstrations that took place throughout the country after the military coup. But sporadic protests such as Sunday's remain in

,

largest city and former capital

, now known as

, where local media reported that three people were killed and at least 15 were arrested after security forces collided. against protesters.

According to witnesses,

protesting

.

"The car, in which there were soldiers, hit the crowd from the rear, and then they followed the dispersed protesters and arrested and beat them," says a note released by Reuters.

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