Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi was convicted of three criminal charges and sentenced to four more years in prison on Monday for illegally importing and possessing walkie-talkies and violating coronavirus restrictions, an official said.

Suu Kyi was handed down a two-year sentence for breaching the export-import law and one year for having a set of signal jammers. According to Reuters, the two sentences will run concurrently.

The charges were the first to be brought against her, soon after her elected government was deposed in a coup last February.

Rights group Amnesty International said on Twitter on Monday the new convictions were "the latest act in the farcical trial against the civilian leader". It called for her release along with thousands of others "unjustly detained" since the coup.

Myanmar has been in turmoil since the coup against Suu Kyi's democratically elected government led to widespread protests and signalled the end of 10 years of tentative political reforms that followed decades of strict military rule.

On December 6 last year, she received a four-year jail sentence for incitement and breaching coronavirus rules. That sentence, which was later reduced to two years was met by a chorus of international condemnation.

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