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.

First up, though. Today, Aung San Suu Kyi, 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 Suu Kyi'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 junta wants,

taking Miss Suu Kyi 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 Aung San Suu Kyi handed down its first verdicts,

and entirely unsurprisingly, it ruled that Suu Kyi was guilty.

...