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Myanmar junta pardons Aung San Suu Kyi, postpones election it promised to hold after seizing power in 2021 coup
- Suu Kyi will be pardoned for five of the 19 offences for which she was jailed for a total of 33 years. Ex-president Win Myint was also pardoned
- Meanwhile, the generals said violence following their 2021 coup made an election ‘that is free and fair’ and voting ‘without any fear’ impossible
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Myanmar’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be pardoned for five of the 19 offences for which she was convicted and jailed for a total of 33 years, state media and an informed source reported on Tuesday.
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The pardons would mean a reduction in her jail term of six years, junta spokesman Zaw Min Tun told the Eleven Media Group.
The Nobel laureate, who last week moved from prison to house arrest in the capital, Naypyidaw, has been in detention since the military seized power in a coup in early 2021.
The military’s State Administration Council also pardoned former president Win Myint, who was also arrested at the same time as Suu Kyi after the 2021 coup, on some of the charges for which he was convicted resulting in a reduction of four years in his jail term, the junta spokesman was quoted as saying.
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Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi moved to house arrest from jail
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Suu Kyi, 78, denied all of the charges for which she was convicted, ranging from incitement and election fraud to corruption, and has been appealing against them.
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