On 2 June, the Myanmar junta’s Union Supreme Court agreed to hear a special appeal by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi against her five-year sentence for improperly accepting money and gold.

State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi is already being held in prison and is serving a 33-year sentence for multiple charges.

In April 2022 Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to five years in prison for allegedly accepting gold and US dollars in cash from U Phyo Min, the former Chief Minister of Yangon Region.

The lawsuit against her was filed by U Ye Htet, the director general of the Anti-Corruption Commission who claimed that Aung San Suu Kyi had received $60,000 USD and seven viss (11.43kg) of gold from Phyo Min Thein.

In a court hearing in October 2021 Phyo Min Thein testified that he gave the gold and cash to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and Ye Htet testified that neither the gold nor the money had been found so they could not be produced as evidence.

Aung San Suu Kyi has said that Phyo Min Thein’s testimony was “all absurd.”

Regarding this case, Aung San Suu Kyi has already had her appeal to the Supreme Court rejected, which is why she has now filed a special appeal.

The date of the special appeal has not yet been fixed.