{"id":47109,"date":"2021-12-06T06:24:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T06:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=47109"},"modified":"2021-12-06T06:24:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T06:24:32","slug":"myanmars-suu-kyi-sentenced-to-four-years-in-jail-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=47109","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar\u2019s Suu Kyi sentenced to four years in jail: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"article__subhead css-1wt8oh6\">Monday\u2019s ruling is first in a dozen cases Myanmar\u2019s military has brought against Aung San Suu Kyi since February coup.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"65\">\n<p>A court in Myanmar has sentenced the country\u2019s deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to four years in jail, according to media reports.<\/p>\n<p>A government spokesman told the AFP news agency on Monday that Aung San Suu Kyi received two years imprisonment for incitement and two years for violating COVID-19 rules.<\/p>\n<p>Zaw Min Tun said former President Win Myint was also jailed for four years under the same charges.<\/p>\n<p>He said the pair will not be taken to prison yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will face other charges from the places where they are staying now\u201d in the capital Naypyidaw, he added, without giving further details.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters and the Associated Press, citing sources familiar with the proceedings, also said Aung San Suu Kyi and Win Myint were sentenced to four years each.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s ruling is the first in a dozen cases Myanmar\u2019s military has brought against Aung San Suu Kyi.<\/p>\n<p>Other cases against the Nobel Peace Prize laureate include multiple charges of corruption, violations of a state secrets act, and a telecoms law that altogether carry a maximum sentence of more than a century in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Aung San Suu Kyi, detained as the generals seized control of the country on February 1, denies all the charges.<\/p>\n<p>More soon \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday\u2019s ruling is first in a dozen cases Myanmar\u2019s military has brought against Aung San Suu Kyi since February coup.A court in Myanmar has sentenced the country\u2019s deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to four years in jail, according to media reports. A government spokesman told the AFP news agency on Monday that Aung San&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}