Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

As the agency that coordinates policing across international borders, Interpol should be

above reproach. But after a succession of leaders who have ended up in hot water, there are

calls for transparency on how Interpol does its work and how it appoints its bosses.

And for libertarians shaking off the shackles of governments, one idea is to live on platforms

on the high seas. That turns out to be tricky. Now there are some serious attempts a bit

closer to shores. Attempts being run by, well, governments.

Just up though.

Today, Anxon Sushi, the former civilian leader of Myanmar, was sentenced to four years

in prison, found guilty of inciting dissent and breaching COVID-19 rules. She's been

charged with far more and far worse than that. It's more than a year since Miss Sushi's

party won an election by a landslide. Just before they could take power, though, the military

carried out a coup. Public resistance to that led to a brutal, deadly crackdown that hasn't

slowed down. Yesterday, at an anti-government protest in Yangon, the country's most popular

city, a military vehicle appeared to drive straight into demonstrators.

Today's verdict accomplishes just what the ruling honed to once, taking Miss Sushi out

of active political life. And there's good reason to believe that she will, in the end,

be imprisoned for much longer. That seems likely to crystallize opposition to the military

even more.

So today, the court hearing the trial of Anxon Sushi handed down its first verdicts. And

entirely unsurprisingly, it ruled that Sushi was guilty.

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