(Reuters) – Burmese justice has laid down five new corruption charges against former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday, with the trial taking place like all those against her behind closed doors.
Overthrown by the army that has ruled the country almost continuously for sixty years, Aung San Suu Kyi has already been sentenced to six years in prison by a court in Naypyitaw, after a trial described as a farce by the community. international.
The 76-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate is the target of a dozen other lawsuits intended, according to her supporters, to discredit her with the population and prevent her from resuming public activity.
Among the charges recently retained by justice is the rental of a helicopter while she was at the head of the government after the landslide victory of her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD) in the 2015 elections, said the source under the seal of anonymity.
She was sentenced Monday to four years in prison for possessing an unlicensed walkie-talkie.
(Reuters journalists, written by Martin Petty, French version Tangi Salaün, edited by Jean-Stéphane Brosse)
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