Pro-Democracy Leader in Myanmar Is Convicted
By SETH MYDANS
NYT
BANGKOK — Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy leader, was sentenced Tuesday to three years of hard labor for violating the terms of her house arrest, but her sentence was quickly commuted to a new term of house arrest of up to 18 months.
She presumably will be allowed to leave the prison guest house where she has been held since the trial began May 18 and return to the villa where Myanmar’s ruling junta has kept her confined for 14 of the past 20 years.
Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi, 64, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, had faced a possible prison term of five years.
“The outcome of this trial has never been in doubt,” Jared Genser, her international counsel in Washington, said Tuesday after the verdict was announced. “The real question is how the international community will react — will it do more than simply condemn this latest injustice?”
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NYT
BANGKOK — Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy leader, was sentenced Tuesday to three years of hard labor for violating the terms of her house arrest, but her sentence was quickly commuted to a new term of house arrest of up to 18 months.
She presumably will be allowed to leave the prison guest house where she has been held since the trial began May 18 and return to the villa where Myanmar’s ruling junta has kept her confined for 14 of the past 20 years.
Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi, 64, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, had faced a possible prison term of five years.
“The outcome of this trial has never been in doubt,” Jared Genser, her international counsel in Washington, said Tuesday after the verdict was announced. “The real question is how the international community will react — will it do more than simply condemn this latest injustice?”
(Continued here.)
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