YANGON, June 14 (AFP) - The trial of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi will hear its first testimony in a junta court on Monday (Jun 14), more than four months after a military coup.

Near daily protests have rocked Myanmar since the generals' putsch removed her government in February, ending a 10-year experiment with democracy.

The mass uprising has been met with a brutal military crackdown that has killed more than 850 people, according to a local monitoring group.

The junta has brought an eclectic raft of charges against the Nobel laureate, from illegally accepting 11kg of gold to breaking a colonial-era secrecy law.

On Monday, her defence team will cross-examine witnesses over charges she improperly imported walkie-talkies and flouted coronavirus restrictions during last year's elections that her National League for Democracy (NLD) won in a landslide.

Her lawyers - who have been allowed to meet with her just twice since she was placed under house arrest - have said they expect the trial to wrap up by Jul 26.

Hearings for the case will take place every Monday.

If convicted of all charges, Aung San Suu Kyi, 75, faces more than a decade in jail.

"We are hoping for the best but prepared for the worst," Khin Maung Zaw, one of Suu Kyi's lawyers, told AFP ahead of the hearing in the capital Naypyidaw.

A separate case is scheduled to start on Jun 15, where she is charged with sedition alongside ousted president Win Myint and another senior member of the NLD.

Aung San Suu Kyi spent more than 15 years under house arrest during the previous junta's rule before her 2010 release.

Her international stature diminished following a wave of military violence targeting Buddhist-majority Myanmar's marginalised Muslim Rohingya community, but the coup has returned Aung San Suu Kyi to the role of cloistered democracy icon.

On Thursday, she was hit with additional corruption charges of illegally accepting US$600,000 in cash and around 11kg of gold.

Her lawyer Khin Maung Zaw dismissed the new charges - which could see Aung San Suu Kyi hit with another lengthy prison term - as "absurd".