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David Lammy has issued a historic and impassioned plea for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, imprisoned by the brutal dictatorship in Myanmar.. In a major intervention, the foreign secretary has ...
Aung San Suu Kyi addressing crowds at the NLD headquarters shortly after her release Aung San Suu Kyi meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in Yangon, December 2011. On the evening of 13 November 2010, Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest. [164]
Formerly Myanmar’s democratically elected leader, Ms Suu Kyi, 79, was ousted from power in a coup lead by the military in 2021. She has been imprisoned ever since. Aung San Suu Kyi (PA)
The release of Aung San Suu Kyi and around 20,000 fellow political prisoners will be the most crucial step towards ending the conflict in Myanmar, the country’s government-in-exile has said ...
The 2011–2015 Myanmar political reforms were a series of political, economic and administrative reforms in Myanmar undertaken by the military-backed government. These reforms include the release of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest and subsequent dialogues with her, establishment of the National Human Rights Commission, general amnesties of more than 200 political ...
The United Nations has expressed concern about the fairness of the election [6] and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed "grave concern" that Aung San Suu Kyi would not be released before the election and thus it would "lack credibility." He accused the government of being "slow and incomplete" to meet political commitments ...
A former minister whose family left Myanmar for Britain has added his voice to growing calls for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, who is imprisoned by the dictatorship there.. Paul Scully said her ...
In March 2000, U2 were awarded the Freedom of the City of Dublin at a ceremony where Burmese academic Aung San Suu Kyi was honoured but absent. The band had never heard of Suu Kyi prior to that but learned that her activism and fighting for freedom in Burma led to her being under house arrest since 1989 (a sentence that was later ended in 2010).