Published on: 08/15/2022 – 15:58 The Burmese junta on Monday sentenced former leader Aung San Suu Kyi to an additional six years in prison during a lengthy trial. This sentence is in addition to the other eleven years of detention pronounced against the Nobel Peace Prize. Six years of additional detention against Aung San Suu Kyi. The 77-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner, who had already been sentenced to a total of eleven years in detention during a river trial, was found guilty on Monday August 15 of four corruption charges. Appeared in good health at the military court, according to a source close to the case, she did not comment after the judgment was read. This is an “affront to justice and the rule of law”, reacted a spokesperson for the US State Department, calling for the “immediate release of Aung San Suu Kyi and all those unjustly detained, including democratically elected representatives.”Placed in solitary confinementArrested during the February 1, 2021 military coup, Aung San Suu Kyi was placed in solitary confinement in a prison in Naypyidaw at the end of June. in this prison in the capital that his trial continues, which began more than a year ago, behind closed doors. Her lawyers are also prohibited from speaking to the press and to international organizations. She is targeted by a multitude of offences: violation of a law on state secrets dating from the colonial era, electoral fraud, sedition, corruption. .. She faces decades in prison. At the end of April, the Nobel laureate was sentenced to five years in prison under the anti-corruption law, for having received 600,000 dollars and more than 11 kilos of gold in bribes of the former minister in charge of the Yangon region. Judicial harassment She had previously been tried for importing and illegally possessing walkie-talkies, violating Covid-19 restrictions and inciting public unrest. ” Deaf to national outrage and international law, the trials to punish Suu Kyi and those close to her are intended to erase Burma’s democratic past,” political analyst David Mathieson told AFP. “Their intention is clear to everyone, except for the community international community”, the sanctions of which are considered too light by some observers, he continued. Many voices denounce a judicial harassment motivated, according to them, by political considerations: to permanently touch the daughter of the hero of independence and big winner of the 2015 and 2020 elections. Several of his relatives were sentenced to heavy sentences: 75 years in prison for a former minister, 20 years for one of his collaborators. A former member of his party sentenced to death, Phyo Zeya Thaw, was executed at the end of July. Genocide Others went into exile or went into hiding. Some of these fallen elected officials formed a “national unity government” (NUG), but it does not control any territory and has not been recognized by any foreign government. Aung San Suu Kyi remains a very popular figure in Burma , even if its international image has been tarnished by its inability to defend the Muslim minority of the Rohingya, victims of abuses by the army in 2016 and 2017, described as “genocide” by Washington. The special envoy of ASEAN ( Association of Southeast Asian Nations) for Burma, mandated to find a way out of the crisis, was not authorized to meet her during her most recent visit, at the end of June. defends its plan to organize elections in the summer of 2023. The United States has already rejected this “sham” of elections which can not be “neither free nor fair under current conditions”, according to the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken. The junta, increasingly isolated on the international scene, seized power by force e under the pretext of alleged fraud in the elections of the previous year, won overwhelmingly by the party of Aung San Suu Kyi, ending a decade of democratic transition. The putsch plunged the country into chaos. Nearly 2,100 civilians have been killed by security forces and more than 15,000 arrested, according to a local NGO. With AFP