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Aung San Suu Kyi

June 2024

  • Tin Oo alongside Aung San Suu Kyi as she speaks to crowds in Yangon, Myanmar, in 1996

    Tin Oo, NLD founder with Aung San Suu Kyi, dies aged 97 in Myanmar

    Former armed forces chief was imprisoned after failed revolt against junta and later campaigned with Nobel laureate under National League for Democracy banner

April 2024

  • Myanmar's deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi

    Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s jailed former leader, moved to house arrest, says junta

    Military spokesperson says Nobel laureate is among prisoners to be moved out of prison as a precaution during hot weather

March 2024

  • Aung San Suu Kyi's now empty house is seen by Yangon's Inya lake, 2009

    Auction of Aung San Suu Kyi’s home in Myanmar attracts no bidders

    Home being sold after supreme court ruling in dispute with Aung San Suu Kyi’s estranged brother, with the price reportedly set at tens of millions of dollars

November 2023

  • Rebel group fighters at a check point in Shan state, 10 November.

    The Guardian view on Myanmar’s military: the generals are in trouble

    Editorial: Ethnic armed groups have scored remarkable successes in the last month. But the army will not cede power easily

September 2023

  • Aung San Suu Kyi’

    ‘Powerless’ son says Aung San Suu Kyi’s life may be at risk due to serious health problems

    Myanmar’s deposed leader has gum disease and struggles to eat but son says requests for help made by prison officers have been denied

August 2023

  • Aung San Suu Kyi in 2018. She has been held by the military since it seized power on 1 February 2021.

    Aung San Suu Kyi’s partial ‘pardon’ still means 27-year sentence

  • Aung San Suu Kyi

    Aung San Suu Kyi given partial pardon by Myanmar junta

July 2023

  • A settlement with green tarpaulins roofing bamboo huts and houses stretched along a valley

    Villagers say 14 killed as Myanmar violence flares

    Fighting increases in border states while junta continues to delay elections

May 2023

  • Myanmar leader Gen Min Aung Hlaing, who is releasing more than 2,100 political prisoners as a humanitarian gesture. According to an official announcement on state media, all of the prisoners granted pardons on Wednesday were convicted under a section of the penal code that makes it a crime to spread comments that create public unrest or fear, or spread false news

    Myanmar’s military rulers release more than 2,100 political prisoners

    The prisoners are to be released the most important Buddhist holy day of the year. However, deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi remains in jail

April 2023

  • A file shot of soldiers standing next to military vehicles as people gather in Yangon, Myanmar, in February 2021 to protest against the military coup

    Myanmar: senior election official linked to junta shot dead by resistance group

    Killing in Yangon of Sai Kyaw Thu, a former lieutenant colonel, is confirmed by guerrilla group

March 2023

  • Protesters demonstrate against the military coup in front of a National League for Democracy (NLD) office in Myanmar in 2021.

    US, UK, Japan and Australia condemn Myanmar for banning 40 political parties

  • A protester waves the National League for Democracy flag in Yangon

    Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party dissolved

February 2023

  • Protesters in Myanmar hold portraits of deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi outside the country’s embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, on the Myanmar military takeover anniversary

    Myanmar junta extends state of emergency, delaying promised elections

    Regime chief says military will always be country’s ‘guardian’ regardless of who is in power, as streets empty on anniversary of army takeover

January 2023

  • Sunglingthanhg, aged 63, keeps an eye on the village of Haimual from his post.

    On the frontline with the rebel army fighting Myanmar’s brutal junta

  • Simon Tisdall

    Global action is needed to topple Myanmar’s criminal junta boss

    Simon Tisdall

December 2022

  • Aung San Suu Kyi at a rally in Myanmar in January 2020

    Myanmar court jails Aung San Suu Kyi for extra seven years in final closed trial

  • Myanmar's junta chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing

    The Guardian view on Myanmar’s military: in power but not in control

November 2022

  • Ha Vu and Sean Turnell smile and pose for a photograph together. Ha Vu is wearing a light pink jacket and Turnell is wearing a blue shirt

    Sean Turnell reunited with wife in Australia after two years in Myanmar prison

    Economic adviser to deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi was described as being in ‘amazingly good spirits’ by Anthony Albanese

October 2022

  • Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi

    Aung San Suu Kyi faces total of 26 years in prison after latest corruption sentencing

    Court controlled by junta adds a further three years in jail to raft of other sentences handed to the former leader

September 2022

  • Ha Vu and Sean Turnell

    Wife of Australian economist imprisoned in Myanmar says family is heartbroken by three-year sentence

    Ha Vu pleads for Prof Sean Turnell’s release after secret trial which Australian diplomats and journalists were banned from
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