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

As a charismatic personality carrying a famous name and a global profile, Aung San Suu Kyi could still be the person that her people would freely choose to bring their country together ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The head of Aung San Suu Kyi’s former Oxford college has backed calls from three former foreign secretaries for her to be freed. Lady Elish Angiolini, the principal of St Hugh’s College ...

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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 ...