Australia demands the immediate release of academic Sean Turnell, who was charged with violating state secrets and tried alongside Aung San Suu Kyi. Furthermore, former Myanmar Prime Minster Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to prison for breaching state secrets as well.
A secretive military court has declared Myanmar's elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of violating the country's official secrets legislation, the latest in a series of convictions filed by the generals who deposed her in a coup last year.
Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to three years in prison on Thursday, according to an official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to divulge information about the case.
Sean Turnell, her economic consultant, was also found guilty and sentenced to three years in prison, according to the official.
Turnell, a professor at Sydney's Macquarie University, was imprisoned five days after the February 2021 coup. The Australian embassy wa...