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

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

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 ...

Myanmar's military junta announced today ... but nothing suggests that 79-year-old Aung San Suu Kyi will be among the people released. The leader of the National League for Democracy was arrested ...

BANGKOK — Myanmar’s military government has released more than ... since the military seized power in February 2021 from the ...

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 ...

A former minister whose family left Myanmar for Britain has added his voice to growing calls for freedom for Aung San Suu Kyi ...

While buses departed from Yangon’s Insein Prison on Saturday, carrying freed detainees to reunite with waiting families, there was no indication that Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s ousted ...

Myanmar's military government has released more than 6,000 prisoners and has reduced other inmates' sentences as part of a ...

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