The sentence is for alleged violations of Covid-19 rules and import laws.
A junta court in Naypyitaw sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to four more years in prison on Monday for possessing “illegally imported” walkie-talkies and violating Covid-19 restrictions, court sources said.
Judge Maung Maung Lwin handed her two years under the Export-Import Law and one year under the Telecommunications Law, both charges relating to the walkie-talkies seized during a pre-dawn raid on her home as the military coup unfolded on February 1 last year.
Those sentences will be served concurrently, the judge said.
Suu Kyi, 76, also received a two-year sentence under the Natural Disaster Management Law for allegedly violating Covid-19 rules during her 2020 election campaign.
The deposed State Counsellor received a four-year prison term in early December for incitement and a separate violation of Covid-19 restrictions during the election. The junta deducted two years from her sentence later the same day.
Suu Kyi is awaiting decisions on seven more cases brought by the coup regime, including six for alleged corruption.
The junta announced in November that it will prosecute her and other leaders of her National League for Democracy party, which won the 2020 election in a landslide, for “voter fraud.”
She is serving her sentence at an undisclosed location in Naypyitaw, where she has been held since early last year.
source myanmar-now