The European Union has condemned the verdict, as it was judged in a trial without the “necessary guarantees”.
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The former Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to 33 years prison in her long legal battle since she was overthrown by a coup in February 2021 and that this Friday ended with a final sentence of seven years out of prison.
A military court, based in Naypyidaw Prison where the Nobel Peace Prize winner is serving her sentence, today handed down the final sentence for five charges related to the lease of land and the purchase and rental of helicopters.
The European Union (EU) has condemned Suu Kyi’s latest conviction as she has been put on trial without the “necessary guarantees”.
A spokesman for the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, said in a statement that a court led by the Myanmar (Burma) military delivered its final verdicts against the detained president this Friday. win myint and State Councilor Aung San Suu Kyi, closing a series of “purely politically motivated” trials over the past 13 months.
“These trials were carried out without respect for due process or due judicial guarantees and are a clear attempt to exclude democratically elected leaders from political life,” the spokesperson stressed.
Win Myint and Aung San Suu Kyi face each other in total 12 and 33 years in prison respectively inclusive three years of hard workamounting to “another flagrant violation of human rights in Myanmar,” the spokesman said.
“The European Union strongly condemns these trials, these verdicts and the general dismantling of democracy and the rule of law in Myanmar,” it stressed.
He added that the EU continues to defend an authentic dialogue in the countryinvolving Suu Kyi, the National League for Democracy, the Government of National Unity, civil society and all other relevant stakeholders in Myanmar to “pave the way out of the deep crisis in the country and restore the path to democracy”.
The EU has also expressed deep concern about the large number of people arbitrarily detained and repeated his urgent appeal to the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners.
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