Dramatic twist in former Burma. On Wednesday 17 April the former leader of Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, she was released from prison and was transferred to the House arrest. A spokesperson for the country’s military authorities said that older prisoners are provided “the necessary care” during the periods of heat and it is therefore not clear whether it is one temporary measure or a real reduction of the sentence. Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Prize winner, is 78 years old.
The previous shift from prison to house arrest in Myanmar
It is not the first time that Aung San Suu Kyi has gone from prison to home.
In fact, on 28 July 2023, she was transferred from the prison where she was under house arrest to a government building in the capital, Naypyitaw.
Aung San Suu Kyi, founder of the Burmese National League for Democracy, in a shot from May 1996
What is the Nobel Prize winner accused of?
Aung San Suu Kyi has been accused of several crimes – from fraud at the corruption – which, when added together, cost her a sentence of 33 years in prison.
Since then, the woman has only been seen once, and only in photos of state media taken in a courtroom.
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Many governments, especially Western ones, have asked for his unconditional release.
Last summer the president of the State Administration Council partially pardoned Aung San Suu Kyi: the amnesty, however, concerned only 5 of the many crimes for which she was convicted.
The activist received a reduced sentence of 6 years.
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Who is Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi was born in Yangon, in Myanmar, the June 19, 1945.
General’s daughter Aung San, one of national heroes of Myanmar and father of independence from the United Kingdom, in 1991 he won the PNobel Peace Prize winner by virtue of his battles in favor of democracy in the country.
In the parliamentary elections on 8 November 2020, his party, the National League for Democracyobtained an absolute majority of seats in both legislative chambers and was ready to form the Government.
The newly elected parliament was due to hold its first session onFebruary 1, 2021but the previous night the military seized power in a coup: Suu Kyi and other party leaders were arrested.
Photo source: ANSA
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