The release of Aung San Suu Kyi and around 20,000 fellow political prisoners will be the most crucial step towards ending the ...

The son of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has pleaded for her release amid fears for her health after four years in a ...

The pro-democracy Nobel peace prize winner turned global pariah was toppled by the military leaders of Myanmar in 2021 and ...

Aung San Suun Kyi’s imprisonment in a jungle jail marks the rise and fall of one of the world’s most iconic women as her ...

Before she was deposed and imprisoned by military generals, the twice-elected leader of Myanmar made tragic errors of judgement in office, and has been abandoned to her fate. But if you are a democrat ...

Regime-controlled court rules floor price on historic property can be lowered after tussle between democracy icon and her ...

Two former UK foreign ministers join call for action after Lord Hague told Independent documentary it is possible to be ...

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 ...

Three former UK foreign secretaries have today called for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, currently imprisoned by a brutal military dictatorship in Myanmar. William Hague, Sir Malcolm Rifkind and ...

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 ...

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