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Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi gets 3 years’ jail for election fraud

Aung San Suu Kyi has been already sentenced to 17 years in prison on a host of charges [File: Franck Robichon/Pool via Reuters]

Myanmar’s deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been found guilty of electoral fraud and sentenced to three years in jail with hard labour, a sentence that adds to the 17 years in prison that she was already handed for other offences.

The Nobel laureate and figurehead for Myanmar’s opposition to decades of military rule has been detained since a coup early last year. She denies all the allegations against her.

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