Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi handed five year jail term for corruption

The Nobel laureate, who led Myanmar for five years before being forced from power in a coup in early 2021,The international community has dismissed the trials as farcical and has demanded her immediate release.The military says Suu Kyi is on trial because she committed crimes and is being given due process by an independent judiciary. A spokesman for the junta was not immediately available for comment.Since her arrest on the morning of the February 1 coup last year, Suu Kyi has been charged with multiple crimes from violations of electoral and state secrets laws to incitement and corruption, accusations her supporters say are trumped up to kill off any chance of a political comeback.