Aung San, was assassinated in July 1947. Suu Kyi, 79, remained there after her 2010 release from house arrest until moving in 2012 to the capital, Naypyitaw, to serve in parliament. She became the ...

Aung San Suu Kyi found meditation difficult at first, she acknowledged. It wasn’t until her first period of house arrest, between 1989 and 1995, she said, that “I gained control of my thoughts ...

Aung San Suu Kyi ... a token role for democracy and civilian politicians. The result was Suu Kyi’s release from house arrest in 2010, her election to parliament the following year, the lifting ...

Myanmar’s military junta has pardoned nearly 5,000 prisoners as part of an annual new year’s amnesty, but there are no ...

Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing posed in a suit – it should have been a prison uniform - COMMENT: Seeing the architect of so many of Myanmar’s ills welcomed in Bangkok beggars belief, writes Benedict Rogers ...

Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her commitment to peaceful change through democratic elections. She has been imprisoned or placed on house arrest for more than three ...

The Independent has been hailed for shining a light on the continued imprisonment of Aung ... house arrest, where her fight for democracy became famous across the world. The junta allowed Ms Suu ...

“In this spirit we call on the military to announce a full amnesty for detainees it has incarcerated since February 2021, including state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint.