Suu Kyi

On Wednesday, local media claimed that 22 individuals were arrested by Myanmar police for celebrating the birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s leading democracy icon. Eleven Media, citing an anonymous official, stated that police...

Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy was founded by former Myanmar commander Tin Oo, who became a fighter for democracy. According to her assistant and the local media, Tin Oo passed away on Saturday...

Aung San Suu Kyi, a symbol of democracy imprisoned in Myanmar, has been placed under house arrest by the country’s junta, a source told AFP on Wednesday. Separately, a spokesman for the country’s military authorities said...

Myanmar lowered former civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s 33-year prison sentence by six years on Tuesday in a partial pardon, as the junta attempts to quash brutal opposition to its rule. In the two years...

On Wednesday, the United States denounced the Myanmar junta for dissolving the party of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi and cautioned that the action would increase unrest. “We strongly condemn the Burma military regime’s decision...

A junta court will hear the final arguments in the 18-month-long trial of Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi next week, a legal source said Tuesday, before reaching its final verdicts against the Nobel laureate. Suu Kyi...

A Japanese journalist who was detained while documenting an anti-coup demonstration was sentenced to three extra years in prison by Myanmar’s junta on Wednesday for breaking immigration laws, a diplomatic source told AFP. According to a...

The leader of Myanmar’s junta stated on Friday that he would consider letting ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to be transferred from prison to house detention, but only after decisions in a plethora of cases...

According to a source familiar with the case, a Myanmar junta court sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to six years in prison on Monday for corruption, bringing her total time behind bars to 17 years. Since...

Myanmar’s military junta sentenced a close aide of ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi to 20 years in prison for treason on Friday, his lawyer said. Myanmar has been in turmoil since the February 1...