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

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

The Arakan Army has effectively established control over 15 out of 18 townships in Rakhine state, including complete ...

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

The AA’s capture of the China-Myanmar pipeline’s station in Ann is a significant blow to the junta, while local experts hope ...

China has much at stake. Its 771-kilometer oil and gas pipeline dissects Rakhine from its capital Sittwe through to Myanmar’s ...

Nobel laureate and former leader Aung San Suu Kyi remains imprisoned. Listen to Story 180 foreign prisoners to be released on Myanmar's independence day Military seized power in Myanmar in 2021 Aung ...

She is serving a 27-year sentence after being found guilty of a variety of criminal charges brought by the military. The terms of the amnesty state that any freed detainees who reoffend will serve ...

open image in gallery A protester covered in fake blood flashes the three-finger salute next to an image of detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a demonstration outside the UN office ...

The freed inmates included just a small proportion of hundreds of political detainees locked up for opposing army rule since the military seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.

But there was no sign off former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been imprisoned since the military coup in 2021.

at around 11:30 a.m. There was no sign that the prisoner release would include Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been held virtually incommunicado by the military since its seizure of power. The 79-year ...