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Factbox-Legal cases against Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi

FILE PHOTO: Aung San Suu Kyi, chairperson and general secretary of Myanmar's opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) party, pauses on stage before speaking, at Columbia University in New York September 22, 2012. REUTERS/Andrew Burton/File Photo

Myanmar's former leader Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to five years in prison on Wednesday after being found guilty of corruption, a source with knowledge of her trial said.

The military overthrew and arrested Suu Kyi in February 2021, alleging unaddressed irregularities in an election her party had won by a huge margin. She is on trial in multiple cases, with combined maximum sentences of nearly 190 years.

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