A Myanmar junta court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi against a five-year sentence for corruption handed down last week, a junta spokesman said.

Since a coup ousted her government in February last year, plunging Myanmar into upheaval, Ms. Suu Kyi has been in military custody and faces a raft of charges that could jail her for more than 150 years.
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