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World Service,06 Dec 2021,49 mins

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to four years

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In Myanmar ousted democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to 4 years in prison, in the first in a series of verdicts. She was found guilty on charges of inciting dissent and breaking Covid rules under a natural disasters law. Ms Suu Kyi faces 11 charges in total, all of which she has denied. Austria gets a new chancellor: former interior minister Karl Nehammer becomes leader while the country faces a wave of coronavirus restrictions and significant resistance to vaccinations. And Lewis Hamilton has won the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix but he's also taken a stand against the country's human rights record. We look at the relationship between sports and public relations.

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