Winning Htein, Myanmar’s senior Aide leader who was overthrown with Aung San Suu Kyi, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Friday on charges of high betrayal, media and one of his family members.
Winning Htein, 79, was a supporter of Stalwart Suu Kyi and old political prisoners for several decades campaigning to end the Army government.
He was arrested after the February 1 coup which had plunged Myanmar into chaos and which ended a decade of tentative democratic government.
Win Princess Htein, Chit Suu won Htein, said in a message for Reuters: “So this is as expected.
It was not a surprise but it was a sad thing and outrageous to hear about ridiculous punishment.
The perpetrators of this injustice will be accounted for.
For this.
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please wait on people! We will win! “Suu Kyi, who is also on trial, charged with a litany of offenses, including protocol coronavirus, illegally possessing two-way radio, accepting bribes of cash and gold, incitement to cause public alarm and violating Law Connect secret.
In the testimony of his first court https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/myanmars-suu-dendenies-junta-junta-antion-allarm-meda-2021-10-26 on Tuesday he denied incitement fees in connection with It published a letter in February calling for international organizations not to cooperate with the powerful military junta.
Media Myanmar has not reported developments in several legal cases of Suu Kyi, and the only source of public information about the trial – His lawyer, Khin Maung Zaw – accepted the order of choking from the military authority earlier this month.
After the former MyAnmar president won Myints said during the trial testimony that the military had tried to force him to release the hours of power before the coup, in comments that challenged the military insistence that did not occur.
The military said he needed power because of last year’s election that returned the Suu Kyi Party to the office of the defect – the country’s election commission was dismissed.
Before he was overthrown, Suu Kyi led the civil government after his party swept the 2015 election, called when the military stepped back from half a century of direct government.
This coup ended many years of tentative steps towards democracy and economic growth in Myanmar after decades of authoritarian rules and economic stagnation.