YANGOON: Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to four years in prison, in the first in a series of verdicts that could jail her for life, BBC has reported.
She was found guilty on charges of inciting dissent and breaking Covid rules under a natural disasters law, it said.
She faces 11 charges in total, all of which she has denied.
Suu Kyi has been under house arrest since February when the military launched a coup, toppling her elected civilian government and detaining leaders.
It is not clear when or if Ms Suu Kyi will be placed in prison.
Co-defendant Win Myint, the former president and Ms Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party ally, was also jailed on Monday for four years under the same charges.
(With inputs from BBC)
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