Myanmar's Ousted Leader Aung San Suu Kyi To Be Pardoned: Report

Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been in detention since she was removed from power in a 2021 military coup, has been pardoned in a Junta amnesty.

Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

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Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been in detention since she was removed from power in a 2021 military coup, has been pardoned in a Junta amnesty, news agency AFP reported citing state media. "Chairman of State Administration Council pardons Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who was sentenced by the relevant courts," the broadcast said, as quoted by AFP. The reports further stated that she has been pardoned in five criminal cases, and she still has to face 14 other cases.

According to AFP, the announcement was a part of an amnesty of more than 7,000 prisoners.  

#UPDATE Jailed Myanmar civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been pardoned in five criminal cases, though she still faces 14 others, state media reports.

The announcement was part of an amnesty of more than 7,000 prisoners to mark Buddhist Lent pic.twitter.com/w5dyXTY2cH

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) August 1, 2023

This comes days after Aung San Suu Kyi was moved to a house arrest. She was taken from prison to a government building. Last week on Monday, Suu Kyi was taken to a government building in Nay Pyi Taw,  BBC Burmese reported citing prison sources. She spent a year in solitary confinement. Suu Kyi's transfer was cinfirmed by news agency AFP with a source in her National League for Democracy party.

Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to another seven years in jail as her long series of trials. She is sentenced to a total of 33 years following 18 months of court proceedings that rights groups have dismissed as a sham -- appeared in good health, a legal source familiar with the case told AFP.

The Nobel laureate now facing more than three decades behind bars. A prisoner of the military since a coup last year, Suu Kyi, 77, has been convicted on every charge levelled against her ranging from corruption to illegally possessing walkie-talkies and flouting Covid restrictions.

Suu Kyi was jailed for seven years on five counts of corruption related to the hiring, maintaining, and purchase of a helicopter for a government minister, a case in which she allegedly caused "a loss to the state". "All her cases were finished and there are no more charges against her," AFP reported citing the source, on condition of anonymity as they were not authorised to speak to the media.

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