A protester holds up a poster featuring Aung San Suu Kyi during a demonstration against the military coup in front of the ...

Toru Kubota backed calls from three former foreign secretaries William Hague, Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw for Aung San ...

A Japanese filmmaker sentenced to 10 years in jail in Myanmar has backed calls for Aung San Suu Kyi to be freed. Toru Kubota, who was arrested while covering a protest in Yangon and whose case led ...

The son of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has pleaded for her release from prison amid fears for the 79-year-old’s health in the country’s “terrible” prisons. Kim Aris told The ...

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Myanmar's then leader Aung San Suu Kyi gave a speech in Naypyidaw in 2020. The following year, she was arrested by the military. The United States and its partners applauded these developments and ...

Military-ruled Myanmar, already notorious for cracking down on free speech, has enacted a new cybersecurity ... in February 2021 after ousting the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi has made ...

Calls are growing in the UK for Aung San Suu Kyi to be released from prison where she has been held for the last four years by Myanmar’s military regime. Former foreign ministers Andrew Mitchell ...

The new law, which came into effect on Wednesday, has extensive provisions mainly targeting means of communications and ...

The release of Aung San Suu Kyi and around 20,000 fellow political prisoners will be the most crucial step towards ending the conflict in Myanmar, the country’s government-in-exile has said.

Calls are growing in the UK for Aung San Suu Kyi to be released from prison where she has been held for the last four years by Myanmar’s military regime. Former foreign ministers Andrew Mitchell and ...