The country’s ruling military junta has announced that Myanmar’s ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been under house arrest since 2021, has been transferred to a prison complex in the country’s capital, Naipyidaw, where she is isolated.
“According to the penal code (Aung San Suu Kyi), she has been in solitary confinement since Wednesday,” junta spokesman Zaw Min Tun said in a statement.
According to various sources, Suu Kyi has been under house arrest in a secret location in Naypyidaw, along with several of her home workers and her dog, since she was overthrown in a coup last year.
The 77-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner left the site only to attend court hearings in a junta court that could sentence him to more than 150 years in prison.
Defense attorneys cannot speak to the press and journalists are not allowed to follow the case.
Under the previous military junta regime, the Burmese leader was placed under house arrest for several years at his family’s home in Yangon, the country’s most important city.
Since his ouster in February 2021, his dealings with the outside world have been limited to brief meetings with lawyers before the hearings.
In recent months, Suu Kyi was sentenced to 11 years in prison after being convicted of corruption, incitement to violence and violating sanitary rules and non-compliance with telecommunications law enacted due to the coronavirus pandemic.
source: Noticias
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