November 23, 2024 05:18 (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
'Third World War has begun:' Ex-Ukraine military commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny | UK-India Free Trade Agreement negotiations to resume in early 2024 | UK can arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he visits country based on ICC warrant | Centre to send over 10,000 additional soldiers to violence-hit Manipur amid fresh violence | Chhattisgarh: 10 Maoists killed during encounter with security forces in Sukma
Myanmar: Jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi granted pardon on five of 19 offenses, to remain under house arrest
Myanmar

Myanmar: Jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi granted pardon on five of 19 offenses, to remain under house arrest

| @indiablooms | 02 Aug 2023, 01:54 am

Myanmar’s ruling military Tuesday pardoned jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi on five of the 19 offenses for which she was convicted.

However, the 78-year Nobel Laureate will continue to remain under house arrest, media reports said.

The pardon will help Suu Kyi’s 33-years jail term be reduced by six years and that it was a part of an amnesty under which more than 7,000 prisoners were freed across conflict-hit Myanmar.

Myanmar has been witnessing a bloody turmoil since 2021 when the military overthrew Suu Kyi’s elected government and enforced a crackdown on the opponents of the military rule.

It was during this time; thousands of people were jailed, and several were even killed.

On Monday, the election promised to be held in the country by August this year, was postponed, and the state of emergency was extended for a period of another six months.

Suu Kyi was last week removed from prison and was placed under house arrest in the capital.

She denies all charges, ranging from election fraud to corruption, for which she was detained during the coup.

The country’s military state administration also reduced the jail term of former president Win Myint, who was arrested at the same time as Suu Kyi, by four years.

According to reports, both Suu Kyi and Win Myint would continue to remain in detention.

Suu Kyi, the daughter of Myanmar’s independence hero, was first put under house arrest in 1989 after huge protests rocked the country against decades of military rule.

In 1991, she won the Nobel Peace Prize for her long campaign for democracy but was freed from house arrest only in 2010.

She swept the 2015 election as well as the next one in 2020.

However, the military complained of election fraud during the 2020 vote and resorted to a coup in early 2021 to ensure complaints were properly investigated.

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.
Related Images
Xi Jinping, Putin in Russia 22 Mar 2023, 02:56 pm
Related Videos