Myanmar's former leader Suu Kyi jailed for four years 

Yangon: A Myanmar court Monday jailed ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi for four years for inciting dissent against the military and breaching COVID rules, a spokesman for the ruling junta revealed.

Aung San is sentenced to four years in prison, with more cases still to be settled.  

76-year-old Suu Kyi, faces almost a dozen charges including incitement, violation of Covid-19 protocols and violation of the Official Secrets Act, which add up to combined maximum sentences of more than 100 years. 

Aung San, however, rejected all allegations.  

Suu Kyi was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment under section 505(b) and two years' imprisonment under natural disaster law.

She was Myanmar's state counselor and de facto leader until the military seized power in February. 

Ms Suu Kyi’s party won a landslide victory in last November 2020 general election. The army, whose allied party lost many seats, claimed massive voting fraud, but independent election observers did not detect any major irregularitie.  

According to a local monitoring group, more than 1,300 people have been killed and over 10,000 arrested in a crackdown on dissent since the coup. 

Myanmar's military has taken control of the country declaring one year state of emergency in the country. Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi along other political leaders were arrested after her government was toppled by the military.

Also known as Burma, Myanmar was ruled by the military until democratic reforms began in 2011.

The power has been handed over to Commander-in-chief Min Aung Hlaing.

Suu Kyi, moved to New Delhi in 1960 when her mother was appointed ambassador to India and then spent most of her young adult life in the United States and England, where in 1972 she married Michael Aris, a British scholar. 

Her career in politics began in 1988.

Ms Kyi is the daughter of Myanmar's independence hero, General Aung San and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. 

She has spent approximately 15 years in jail between 1989 and 2010.