Naypyitaw Myanmar January 10 ANI Detained Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced on Monday to another four years in prison, the second round of verdicts against the ousted civilian leader.
A source who knew of the court proceedings told CNN that the Nobel prize winner was guilty of multiple charges including possession of unlicensed walkie-talkies.
Suu Kyi, 76, was Myanmar's state counsellor and de facto leader before she was ousted and detained by the military in a coup 11 months ago and hit with almost a dozen charges that add up to combined maximum sentences of more than 100 years.
They include several charges of corruption - each with a maximum prison sentence of 15 years - violating the COVID 19 pandemic restrictions during the 2020 election campaign, incitement, illegally importing and possessing walkie talkies, and breaking the colonial-era official secretariat, which carry a maximum prison sentence of 14 years in prison, according to CNN.
She has rejected all of the allegations and her supporters say the charges against her are political.
The sentence includes two years of imprisonment for violating Myanmar's export-import law by possessing the walkie-talkies and one year of imprisonment for violating the communications law. The two sentences will run concurrently, the source told CNN.
Suu Kyi was sentenced to two years in prison for violating the natural disaster management law, which is a violation of coronaviruses rules.
On December 7, a Zabuthiri court in the capital Naypyitaw sentenced Suu Kyi to four years in prison after being found guilty of incitement and two years after being found guilty of violating Section 25 of Disaster Management Law, sources close to the trial said.
The four-year sentence was reduced to two years later that day. The military halved the four-year prison sentence of Myanmar's former President Win Myint, according to CNN.