APRIL 27: Ms Suu Kyi has been under house arrest since February 2021 when a military coup ousted her elected government.
The 76-year-old Nobel laureate has been charged with a raft of criminal offences including voter fraud.
She denies all of the accusations and rights groups have condemned the court trials as a sham.
The closed-door hearings in the capital Nay Pyi Taw have been shut to the public and media, and Ms Suu Kyi's lawyers forbidden from speaking to journalists.
On Wednesday a junta court found her guilty of taking a $600,000 (£477,000) bribe in the form of cash and gold bars from the former head of Yangon, Myanmar's largest city and region.
She was sentenced to five years in jail. Lawyers told the BBC they had not been able to meet her yet.
The latest conviction takes her total prison sentence to 11 years, as she was previously found guilty for other offences.
In December, she was convicted of inciting dissent against the military and breaking public health Covid rules. In January she was also found guilty of having contraband walkie-talkie radios in her house and breaching more Covid rules.
Ms Suu Kyi still faces 10 other corruption charges, each carrying a maximum penalty of 15 years, as well as charges on electoral fraud and violating the official secrets act.
Her supporters say the charges have been trumped up by the junta regime to ensure Ms Suu Kyi, who remains highly regarded in Myanmar as a democracy icon, is jailed for life.
If convicted on all her charges, she would face a total jail sentence of more than 190 years, by some estimates.
Civil rights and democracy groups, as well as the UN, have denounced the legal proceedings as a farce. Human Rights Watch has called it a "courtroom circus of secret proceedings on bogus charges".
Myanmar's military regime has dismissed such allegations, saying Ms Suu Kyi has received fair trials and due legal process so far.
The military's violent seizure of power last February in Myanmar, also known as Burma, came months after Ms Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) won general elections by a landslide.
The military alleged voter fraud in the victory, however independent election observers said the elections were largely free and fair.
The coup triggered widespread demonstrations, prompting Myanmar's military to crack down on pro-democracy protesters, activists and journalists.
Ms Suu Kyi - and many members of her party - are among more than 10,000 people who have been arrested by the junta since they seized power.
Nearly 1,800 people have been killed in the military's crackdown on dissent, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma).
The chaos has also led to continued fighting. The military junta faces widespread opposition and some parts of the country are now engulfed in armed conflict.
MYANMAR, Aug 2: Myanmar's junta chief said Sunday that elections would be held and a state of emergency lifted by August 2023, extending the military's initial timeline given when it deposed Aung San Suu Kyi six months ago.
The country has been in turmoil since the army ousted the civilian leader in February, launching a bloody crackdown on dissent that has killed more than 900 people according to a local monitoring group.
A resurgent virus wave has also amplified havoc, with many hospitals empty of pro-democracy medical staff, and the World Bank has forecast the economy will contract by up to 18 percent.
In a televised address junta leader Min Aung Hlaing said "we will accomplish the provisions of the state of emergency by August 2023."
"I pledge to hold multiparty elections without fail," he added.
The general's announcement would place Myanmar in the military's grip for nearly two and a half years -- instead of the initial one-year timeline the junta announced days after the coup.
The army has justified its power grab by alleging massive fraud during 2020 elections won by Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy in a landslide, and has threatened to dissolve the party.
Last week it cancelled the results of the polls, announcing it had uncovered over 11 million instances of voter fraud.
Suu Kyi has been detained since February 1 and faces an eclectic raft of charges -- from flouting coronavirus restrictions to illegally importing walkie talkies -- which could see her jailed for more than a decade.
Across Myanmar small groups of demonstrators marched Sunday, six months after soldiers launched their putsch with pre-dawn raids, ending a decade-long experiment with democracy.
Protesters in the northern town of Kale held banners reading "strength for the revolution" while demonstrators let off flares at a march in the commercial capital Yangon.
Tens of thousands of civil servants and other workers have either been sacked for joining rallies or are still on strike in support of a nationwide civil disobedience campaign.
The NLD saw their support increase in the 2020 vote compared to the previous election in 2015.
In a report on the 2020 polls, the Asian Network for Free Elections monitoring group said the elections were "by and large, representative of the will of the people".
MYANMAR, July 28: Myanmar's junta-appointed election commission has officially nullified November elections in which the military-affiliated party fared dismally and Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) secured a resounding win.
The military cried foul that the elections were marred by widespread fraud, Kyodo News reported. The nullification is being considered as a prelude to a dissolution order for the formerly ruling party. The Aung San Suu Kyi's government was toppled by the military just hours before the newly-elected lawmakers were supposed to be seated in parliament on February 1.
After the coup, the military appointed an election commission, which claimed that the NLD exploited coronavirus-related restrictions to its advantage and attempted to grab power by obstructing the activities of the other political parties.
Later, the military had announced that the November elections would be nullified and new elections will be held.
The election commission said that in all 315 townships where voting was held, a total of over 11.3 million cases of fraud had occurred, including voter list irregularities, Kyodo News reported.
Following the defeat of its affiliated party -- the Union Solidarity and Development Party in the November elections, the military demanded that suspected election fraud be investigated.
It said it mounted the coup because the then ruling NLD-led government did not listen to its calls.
YANGON, April 25: Myanmar's shadow government of ousted lawmakers has welcomed a call by Southeast Asian leaders for an end to "military violence" after their crisis talks in Jakarta with junta leader Min Aung Hlaing.
The general attended a high-level summit Saturday with leaders from the 10-country Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to discuss Myanmar's mounting crisis.
Since the military ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a February 1 coup, Myanmar has been in an uproar -- with near-daily protests and a nationwide boycott of work in all sectors of society staged to demand a return to democracy.
Security forces have deployed live ammunition to quell the uprising, killing more than 740 people in brutal crackdowns, according to local monitoring group Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP).
But the ASEAN meeting produced a consensus that there would be "an immediate cessation of violence in Myanmar", said a statement released by the bloc Saturday night.
ASEAN will also have a special envoy to "facilitate mediation" between all parties, and this representative will be able to travel to Myanmar.
A spokesperson from a shadow government of ousted lawmakers -- many of whom are from Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party -- on Saturday welcomed the call for an end to violence in Myanmar as "encouraging news".
"This is what the National Unity Government has been calling for," said the NUG's minister of international cooperation known as Dr Sasa, who is currently in hiding with the rest of his fellow lawmakers.
"We eagerly await the engagement by the (ASEAN) secretary general... we look forward to firm action by ASEAN to follow up its decisions and restore our democracy and freedom for our people and for the region."
The lawmakers of the NUG are currently wanted for high treason by the junta.
- 'Will the killing stop?' -
As Myanmar nears three months under the military regime, escalating violence by its security forces -- especially in urban centres -- has pushed protesters and prominent activists into hiding.
The junta has also throttled communications across the country, imposing a nightly internet shutdown for 70 consecutive days and restricting mobile data to a mere trickle -- shunting the nation into an information blackout.
On Saturday, as Min Aung Hlaing attended the meeting with ASEAN leaders and foreign ministers in Jakarta, soldiers and police fired on protesters near Myanmar's capital Naypyidaw.
One 50-year-old protester was held by the police and shot dead by a soldier, an eyewitness told AFP.
The number of detainees climbed to 3,389 on Saturday, according to AAPP. While ASEAN leaders said they "heard calls for the release of all political prisoners", a commitment to free them was not included in their consensus statement.
UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar, Tom Andrews, said it remains to be seen how effective the bloc's engagement will be.
"The result of the ASEAN Summit will be found in Myanmar, not (in) a document," Andrews tweeted Sunday. "Will the killing stop? Will the terrorizing of neighborhoods end? Will the thousands abducted be released? Will impunity persist?"
Andrews added that he was "anxious" to work with ASEAN's special envoy. The junta has justified its power seizure as a means to protect democracy, alleging electoral fraud in November elections which Suu Kyi's party had won in a landslide.
NAYPYITAW, MYANMAR, Jan 31: Myanmar’s military on Saturday denied its chief was threatening to stage a coup over complaints of election fraud, saying the media had misinterpreted his words.
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