Today that leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, eighty next year, is locked in a jungle jail with no prospect of release, while the army with whom she had shared power since 2016 fights a brutal civil war on ...

An Independent TV documentary published today, entitled Cancelled: The Rise and Fall of Aung San Suu Kyi, lays bare her fall from grace. She is no longer the heroic figure she was in the long ...

The Burma Campaign UK rights group has calculated that the Nobel laureate has spent 19 years in captivity since 1989 as her ...

Myanmar’s government-in-exile says Suu Kyi’s detention a stark reminder of brutal junta rule: ‘Inhumane’ - Exclusive: ...

As Congress shifts to new headquarters named after Indira Gandhi, a look at storied past of Type VII bungalow that witnessed ...

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 ...

That was on 1 February 2021, and everything changed overnight. Only three months before, the landslide victory of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party in the general election ...

Head of Aung San Suu Kyi’s former Oxford college backs calls for her release - Exclusive: Lady Elish Angiolini, the principal ...

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This is the story of Aung San Suu Kyi. Mother to two sons, fate and history conspired to bring her to the forefront of Myanmar's push for democratic freedom, the world rushing to build her up as ...