Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced in Burma to five years in prison for corruption .

the sentence against the Nobel laureate and former leader was handed down by a court of the Burmese junta and is part of a series of criminal proceedings that see the 76-year-old defendant who now risks remaining in a cell for decades.

In this specific trial the accusation was that of having accepted a bribe equal to 600 thousand dollars in cash and gold bars.

(Unioneonline / ss)

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