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Myanmar cuts ex-leader Aung San Suu Kyi's sentence, frees former president: Reuters
The amnesty freed 4,335 prisoners and cut Suu Kyi’s 27-year sentence by one-sixth, state media said.
- On Friday, President Min Aung Hlaing approved an amnesty reducing imprisoned former leader Aung San Suu Kyi's 27-year sentence by one-sixth, her lawyer told Reuters. The decree also covered 4,335 prisoners.
- Min Aung Hlaing led the 2021 military coup that ousted the democratically elected government, plunging Myanmar into turmoil. The military has held Suu Kyi in prison on multiple politically motivated charges since her arrest in February 2021.
- Among those receiving sentence reductions was former president Win Myint, an ally of Suu Kyi who served until the 2021 coup. State media reported the amnesty for 4,335 prisoners marked the third such move in six months.
- Her lawyer confirmed the sentence reduction for the 80-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner but stated it remains unclear whether Suu Kyi will be moved to house arrest. Her whereabouts remain unknown.
- Critics and Western governments dismissed Min Aung Hlaing's April 3 presidential election as a sham designed to entrench military rule. Rights groups view the amnesty as a limited concession unlikely to restore democratic norms.
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The winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, 80 years old, is currently serving a sentence of 27 years.
The former leader is serving a 27-year prison sentence, but had his sentence reduced by one-sixth due to a general amnesty.
Opponent of the military dictatorship and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi received a reduced prison sentence for Burmese New Year.
Myanmar cuts ex-leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s sentence, frees former president
April 17 (Reuters) – Myanmar has reduced the sentence of imprisoned ex-leader Aung San Suu Kyi, her lawyer told Reuters on Friday, as part of an amnesty by a new president who ousted her government in a coup five years ago. Suu Kyi, 80, was serving a 27-year sentence for a litany of charges her allies said were politically motivated to keep her at bay, ranging from incitement and corruption to election fraud and violating a state secrets law. …
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