Burma’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, detained since the 2021 military coup, was granted a partial pardon as part of a junta amnesty for more than 7,000 detainees. occasion of Buddhist Lent, state media reported on Tuesday, August 1.
“The Chairman of the State Administrative Council pardoned Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who was sentenced by the relevant courts, under the Human Rights Act,” the news outlet reported. The pardon concerns 5 of the 19 convictions against her.
Originally sentenced to 33 years in prison on a series of charges including bribery, possession of illegal walkie-talkies and breaching Covid restrictions, she has her sentence reduced to six years in prison, explains the junta.
She has only been seen once since being arrested after the February 1, 2021 putsch, in shoddy photos taken by state media in a courtroom at a court in Naypyidaw, the capital built in the jungle by the army.
Last week, Aung San Suu Kyi was transferred from her prison cell to a government building, according to a representative of her political party.
