Wai Hnin Pwint Thon, senior advocacy officer at Burma Campaign UK, condemned the guilty verdict and jail sentence delivered by a court in Naypyitaw to ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi. In an interview with Associated Press, she said “These are trumped up charges, politically motivated, to keep her inside prison for such a long time.”
Wai Hnin Pwint Thon, whose own father is currently in jail in Myanmar for political protest, said the court’s ruling would galvanize opposition. “Arresting people doesn’t create fear, it creates more anger in the public,” she said. “Aung San Suu Kyi is just one of many, many political prisoners in Burma and I don’t want the world to forget that people have been arrested and been detained illegally every day in Burma.”