She “was sentenced to three years in prison with hard labor,” said the source, who said the 77-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner appeared in court in good health.
Charged with a multitude of offenses by the junta in power since the February 2021 coup, she faces decades in prison at the end of her river trial, denounced as political by the international community.
She has already been sentenced to 17 years in prison, in particular for several acts of corruption.
The army justified its putsch by claiming to have discovered more than 11 million irregularities during the legislative elections of November 2020, won massively by the National League for Democracy (LND).
International observers for their part described the election at the time as “generally free and fair”.
Aung San Suu Kyi was placed in solitary confinement in a prison in Naypyidaw at the end of June.
His trial, which began more than a year ago, continues inside the penitentiary center. The latter is held behind closed doors, his lawyers being prohibited from speaking to the press and international organizations.
The junta, which promises a new ballot for the summer of 2023, assured in August that it was ready to open negotiations with Aung San Suu Kyi once her trial is over.
The putsch plunged the country into chaos. Nearly 2,100 civilians were killed by security forces and more than 15,000 arrested, according to a local NGO.
