Myanmar’s military junta has pardoned nearly 5,000 prisoners as part of an annual new year’s amnesty, but there are no ...

Ms Suu Kyi has been held in detention in a prison in Naypyidaw since the fall of her government in 2021, with calls demanding ...

including state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint.” open image in gallery A relative celebrates with a prisoner released from Insein prison to commemorate the Buddhist New ...

Watch The Independent’s documentary Cancelled: The rise and fall of Aung San Suu Kyi The amnesty coincides ... gathered outside Yangon’s Insein Prison early on Thursday morning in hopes ...

Aung San Suu Kyi, the elected leader of Myanmar, is reported to have survived last week’s devastating earthquake unharmed in the prison cell where she is kept in solitary confinement.

The Independent TV documentary Cancelled: The Rise and Fall of Aung San Suu Kyi shines a light on her continued imprisonment. Ms Suu Kyi, 79, is serving prison sentences totalling 27 years after ...