Myanmar's Suu Kyi sentence reduced under mass amnesty: source

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Myanmar's coup-ousted and detained antiauthoritarian person Aung San Suu Kyi had her condemnation reduced Friday arsenic portion of a wide amnesty, a root adjacent to her ineligible lawsuit told AFP.

The source— speaking anonymously for information reasons— confirmed the caller twelvemonth amnesty by person Min Aung Hlaing cutting the remaining presumption of sentences nether 40 years by one-sixth "also applies to her".

Suu Kyi is presently serving a 27-year sentence, but it is unclear however overmuch of her word remained earlier the commutation bid by Min Aung Hlaing, who led the 2021 coup against her.

Published - April 17, 2026 04:20 p.m. IST

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