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The Guardian - UK
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Rebecca Ratcliffe in Bangkok

Aung San Suu Kyi’s partial ‘pardon’ still means 27-year sentence

Aung San Suu Kyi in 2018. She has been held by the military since it seized power on 1 February 2021.
Aung San Suu Kyi in 2018. She has been held by the military since it seized power on 1 February 2021. Photograph: Franck Robichon/EPA

Even with a partial pardon announced this week by Myanmar’s military junta, Aung San Suu Kyi still faces the prospect of being kept in detention until she is more than 100 years old, if she lives that long.

She has been held by the military since it seized power in a coup on 1 February 2021, and has been convicted of 19 offences – from sedition and illegal possession of walkie-talkies, to breaking pandemic rules and electoral fraud.

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