(Reuters) – A Myanmar court sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi, ousted leader of the military-ruled country, to four-year imprisonment Monday on charges including possessing unlicensed walkietalkies. This was according to a source who knew about the proceeding.

Following two convictions in December, her latest sentence in legal proceedings was condemned by rights groups as “courtroom circus” and farce. She now faces six years imprisonment.

She faces nearly 12 cases with combined maximum sentences greater than 100 years. Alle charges against her are denied.

According to another source, Nobel laureate Suu Kyi (76) appeared relaxed when the verdict was read in Naypyitaw’s court on Monday.

Suu Kyi was taken into custody on the anniversary of the February 1st coup. Police found six walkie-talkies that had been illegally imported during a search at her house days later.

For possessing handheld radios in violation of an export-import ban, the court sentenced her to two years and one year respectively for owning signal jammers. Source said that the two sentences would run simultaneously.

The source also said that she was sentenced for two years to another offense of violating a law governing natural disaster management in relation to coronavirus laws.

Myanmar is in chaos since Suu Kyi’s coup against her democratically elected government resulted to mass protests. This marked the end of 10 years worth of political reforms, which followed decades of military rule.

December 6, 2009, she was sentenced for incitement to breach coronavirus regulations and received a four year prison sentence.

This sentence, later reduced to 2 years, was condemned worldwide.

Amnesty International stated Monday on Twitter (NYSE) that new charges were made against Amnesty International’s civilian leader.

The coup called for her release, along with thousands of other “unjustly held” prisoners since then.

The latest conviction against Aung San Suu Kyi was politically motivated. Berit Reiss – Andersen, who is the Norwegian Nobel Committee chair, said that Aung San Suu Kyi remains the foremost champion of democracy and Myanmar to Reuters.

“The Nobel Committee is very concerned about her position,” she said.

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Suu Kyi’s backers claim the case against her is baseless. It was designed to stop her political career.

According to the junta, Suu Kyi has been given fair process by an independent tribunal headed by a Judge appointed by her administration. Unable to reach a spokesperson for the military council immediately for comment,

The media has not been allowed to cover her trial. Suu Kyi’s lawyers were also barred from speaking with the media or the public.

Suu Kyi has been held in detention for years while she was under house arrest.

“The Myanmar junta’s courtroom circus of secret proceedings on bogus charges is all about steadily piling up more convictions … so that she will remain in prison indefinitely,” Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director for Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.

In some recent court hearings, Suu Kyi has been wearing a white top and a brown wraparound longyi https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/myanmars-ousted-leader-suu-kyi-appears-prison-uniform-court-2021-12-17 typically worn by Myanmar prisoners, sources have said.

Last month, Min Aung Hlaing, a military ruler, stated that Suu Kyi as well as President Win Myint will remain at the same place during their trials. They would not be sent into prison.

Hun Sen, Cambodia’s Prime Minister, didn’t seek out Suu Kyi last week when she visited the country for talks with her military rulers.