Burma: Aung San Suu Kyi was placed in solitary confinement in a prison in the capital
Burmese former deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi (our illustration photo) left her house arrest to be placed in solitary confinement in a prison complex in Naypyidaw.
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Burmese former deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi has left her house arrest to be placed in solitary confinement in a prison complex in Naypyidaw, the capital built by the military, the ruling junta announced on Thursday (June 23rd).
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In accordance with the criminal laws (...), Aung San Suu Kyi is kept in solitary confinement in prison
", declared, on June 23, Zaw Min Tun, a spokesman for the junta, in a press release.
Since her ousting in a coup last year, Suu Kyi had been under house arrest at an undisclosed location in Naypyidaw, accompanied by several domestic workers and her dog, according to people familiar with the matter.
river trial
The 77-year-old Nobel laureate was only out to attend the hearings of her river trial where she faces a total of decades in prison.
His lawyers are barred from speaking to the media and journalists cannot attend his trial.
Under a previous junta, she spent many years under house arrest at her family compound in Yangon, Burma's largest city.
Brief meetings with lawyers
In the context of his current detention, his links with the outside world are limited to brief meetings with his lawyers before the hearings.
She has already been found guilty of corruption, incitement to violence, violation of health rules related to Covid-19 as well as violation of the telecommunications law and a court sentenced her to 11 years in prison.
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with AFP
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