Human Rights Watch calls for more effective sanctions to hurt Myanmar's junta. It adds the court had effectively delivered a life sentence given Aung San Suu Kyi's age.
A court in army-ruled Myanmar on Friday, December 30, convicted deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi on five counts of corruption and jailed her for seven more years, an informed source said, wrapping up a marathon of trials condemned internationally as a sham.
Suu Kyi led Myanmar for five years from 2015 during a decade of tentative democracy that came after the military ended its 49-year rule, only for it toearly last year to stop her government from starting a second term, accusing it of ignoring irregularities in an election her party won. “The Myanmar junta’s farcical, totally unjust parade of charges and convictions against Aung San Suu Kyi amount to politically motivated punishment designed to hold her behind bars for the rest of her life,” its deputy Asia director Phil Robertson said.
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