Suu Kyi’s lawyers have been banned from speaking to the media and journalists have been barred from her trial.
Yangon:
Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been transferred from house arrest to solitary confinement at a prison complex in the military-built capital Naypyidaw, a junta spokesman said on Thursday.
“According to criminal laws… (Aung San Suu Kyi) has been kept in solitary confinement in prison since Wednesday,” Jae Min Tun said in a statement.
According to sources with knowledge of the matter, Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest at an undisclosed location in Naypyidaw along with several domestic workers and their dog since the coup last year.
The 77-year-old Nobel laureate left those premises only to attend his trial in a junta court, where he could be sentenced to more than 150 years in prison.
Suu Kyi’s lawyers have been banned from speaking to the media and journalists have been barred from her trial.
Under the previous junta regime, she spent long periods under house arrest at her family’s mansion in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city.
He has already been convicted of corruption, abetment against the army, violating COVID-19 rules and breaking telecom laws, a court sentenced him to 11 years so far.
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