A Myanmar junta court convicted Aung San Suu Kyi of three criminal charges and sent her to four years in prison, the latest in a slew of cases against the ousted civilian leader.
Since February 1st, the Nobel laureate has been in jail since February 1 when her government was forced out in an early morning coup, ending the short-lived experiment with democracy in Myanmar.
Security forces sought to quell with mass detentions and bloody crackdowns in which more than 1,400 civilians were killed in the power grab that caused widespread dissent, according to a local monitoring group.
A source with knowledge of the case told AFP that the 76-year-old was found guilty of two charges related to illegally importing and owning walkie-talkies and breaking coronaviruses rules.
Major General Zaw Min Tun, a spokesman for the Junta spokesman, told AFP Suu Kyi would remain under house arrest while other cases against her proceed.
The walkie-talkies were accused of stealing the contraband equipment when soldiers raided her house on the day of the coup.
Monday's sentence adds to the penalties that the court handed down in December when she was jailed for four years for incitement and breaching Covid 19 rules while campaigning.
Junta chief Min Aung Hlaing reduced the sentence to two years and said she could serve her term under house arrest in the capital Naypyidaw.
The Myanmar public reverted to old protesting tactics of banging pots and pans in a show of anger after December's ruling drew international condemnation.
Manny Maung, a researcher with Human Rights Watch, said further convictions would deepen nationwide discontent.
She told AFP that the announcement of her last conviction resulted in one of the highest days of social media interactions from inside Myanmar and deeply angered the public.
The military is calculating these cases as a fear tactic, but it only serves to direct more anger from the public. Suu Kyi's lawyers have been muzzled from speaking to the media, and journalists have been barred from attending hearings.
Suu Kyi was under a previous junta regime for long periods under house arrest in her family mansion in Yangon, Myanmar's largest city.
She is confined to an unidentified location in the capital, with her link to the outside world limited to brief pre-trial meetings with her lawyers.
She is also facing multiple counts of corruption - each of which is punishable by 15 years in jail and of violating the official secrets act.
She and 15 other officials, including Myanmar's president Win Myint, were charged in November with alleged electoral fraud during the 2020 election.
Her National League for Democracy party swept the elections in a landslide, trouncing a military-aligned party by a wider margin than the previous 2015 election.
Since the coup, many of her political allies have been arrested, with one chief minister being sentenced to 75 years in jail. Others are hiding themselves.