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Aung San Suu Kyi given 3 more years for 'election fraud'

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A court in Myanmar on Friday, September 2, 2022, sentenced the country's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to three years' imprisonment after finding her guilty of involvement in election fraud. [AP]

A court in Myanmar on Friday sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to three years imprisonment with labour after finding her guilty of election fraud, adding more jail time to the 17 years she is already serving for other offences prosecuted by the military government.

The latest verdict also carries potentially significant political consequences for Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party by lending support to the government's explicit threats to dissolve it before a new election the military has promised for 2023.

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