A court in military-ruled Myanmar has found elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of charges widely dismissed as politically motivated and sentenced her to detention at an undisclosed location.
Aung San Suu Kyi, who was convicted in a ruling on Monday, was initially given a four year term.
The sentence was reduced after a partial pardon from coup leader and army chief Min Aung Hlaing, state TV reported.
Ms Suu Kyi faces 11 charges in total and denies them all. They have been widely condemned as unjust.
She has been in detention since a military coup in February toppled her elected civilian government.
Aung San Suu Kyi spent nearly 15 years in detention at the hands of the military between 1989 and 2010, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work to bring democracy to Myanmar.
Her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD) won a landslide victory in 2015, but she was prevented from becoming president herself by rules excluding those with foreign national children from holding that office. She was widely regarded as the de facto ruler of the country.
However her reputation abroad was severely damaged by the way she handled the Rohingya crisis, which started in 2017.
In 2019 Ms Suu Kyi appeared at the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) to defend her country against accusations of genocide.
Meanwhile, President Win Myint was also sentenced to four years as the court delivered its first verdicts in numerous cases against Aung San Suu Kyi and other civilian leaders deposed by the military in a coup on February 1. Win Myint’s sentence was also later cut to two years.
