Nobel laureate Suu Kyi’s sentence is reduced, the decision of the new government of Myanmar

The major move comes after the swearing in of a newly elected government led by military junta chief General Min Aung Hlaing. Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader An San Suu Kyi’s jail term has been announced by the newly elected government. Suu Kyi’s lawyer said this on Friday.

Incidentally, Suu Kyi has been sentenced to a total of 27 years in prison in 2021. Suu Kyi, 80, is serving a 27-year prison sentence for crimes ranging from corruption to sedition, election fraud and violating state secrets laws. However, her associates claim that these allegations were made with political motives to keep Suu Kyi away from the political arena. Suu Kyi’s sentence has been reduced by one-sixth, her lawyer told Reuters on Friday. But it is not clear whether Nobel Peace Prize winner Suu Kyi will be allowed to serve the remainder of her sentence under house arrest. He has already completed the term of the ‘newly determined’ sentence.

Suu Kyi’s sentence was reduced by one-sixth. But it is not clear whether Nobel Peace Prize winner Suu Kyi will be allowed to serve the remainder of her sentence under house arrest.

However, some of her followers fear that the 80-year-old Suu Kyi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize, may be kept under house arrest. In 2021, the democratically elected government led by Suu Kyi was ousted in a military coup by former senior general Min Aung Hlaing. Since then the country became unstable. Civil war broke out. After general elections on 3 April the newly formed parliament elected Hlaing as president; However, international observers widely criticized the election and claimed that it was not free and fair.