Myanmar junta court rejects Suu Kyi corruption appeal

Since a coup ousted her government in February last year, plunging Myanmar into upheaval, Suu Kyi has been in military custody and faces a raft of charges that could jail her for more than 150 years.The junta's "Union Supreme Court rejected the appeal of her sentence," junta spokesman Zaw Min Tun told AFP. She had "decided to continue till the end of the process to check the situation of the rule of law here," the source said.Before her corruption conviction, the 76-year-old Suu Kyi had already been sentenced to six years in jail for incitement against the military, breaching Covid-19 rules and breaking a telecommunications law.Suu Kyi will remain under house arrest at an unknown location in the military-built capital Naypyidaw while she fights other charges.Journalists have been barred from attending the court hearings and Suu Kyi's lawyers have been banned from speaking to the media.The rejection of the appeal marked "another stage in the show trial," David Mathieson, an independent analyst working on Myanmar, told AFP.Under a previous junta regime, Suu Kyi spent long spells under house arrest in her family's colonial-era lakeside mansion in Yangon, Myanmar's largest city.The junta has rebuffed requests by foreign diplomats to meet Suu Kyi while she is on trial. Fighting has flared with established ethnic rebel groups in border areas and across the country "People's Defence Forces" have sprung up to fight junta troops. Suu Kyi has been the face of Myanmar's democratic hopes for more than 30 years, but her earlier sentences already mean she is likely to miss elections the junta has said it plans to hold by next year....

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Since a coup ousted her government in February last year, plunging Myanmar into upheaval, Suu Kyi has been in military custody and faces a raft of charges that could jail her for more than 150 years.The junta's "Union Supreme Court rejected the appeal of her sentence," junta spokesman Zaw Min Tun told AFP. She had "decided to continue till the end of the process to check the situation of the rule of law here," the source said.Before her corruption conviction, the 76-year-old Suu Kyi had already been sentenced to six years in jail for incitement against the military, breaching Covid-19 rules and breaking a telecommunications law.Suu Kyi will remain under house arrest at an unknown location in the military-built capital Naypyidaw while she fights other charges.Journalists have been barred from attending the court hearings and Suu Kyi's lawyers have been banned from speaking to the media.The rejection of the appeal marked "another stage in the show trial," David Mathieson, an independent analyst working on Myanmar, told AFP.Under a previous junta regime, Suu Kyi spent long spells under house arrest in her family's colonial-era lakeside mansion in Yangon, Myanmar's largest city.The junta has rebuffed requests by foreign diplomats to meet Suu Kyi while she is on trial. Fighting has flared with established ethnic rebel groups in border areas and across the country "People's Defence Forces" have sprung up to fight junta troops. Suu Kyi has been the face of Myanmar's democratic hopes for more than 30 years, but her earlier sentences already mean she is likely to miss elections the junta has said it plans to hold by next year....