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Myanmar's former leader Aung San Suu Kyi moved to house arrest
The move comes as part of a larger prisoner pardon tied to a Buddhist religious holiday.Myanmar’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved to house arrest, state media report, more than five years after the military toppled the civilian government that the Nobel laureate had led and jailed her.President Min Aung Hlaing, who ordered the coup in 2021, said in a statement on Thursday that he “commuted the remaining sentence to be served at the designated residence”.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Myanmar pardons over 4,000 prisoners, including deposed presidentlist 2 of 3Myanmar’s military government rebuffed on peace talks offerlist 3 of 3Myanmar’s blanket prison term reduction trims Aung San Suu Kyi’s sentenceend of listState media broadcast a photograph of Suu Kyi seated on a wooden bench and flanked by two uniformed personnel – the first public image of the democracy campaigner in years.Translation: Change the location where Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is serving her sentence (change her remaining sentences to continue serving at her designated residence).Earlier on Thursday, authorities had announced her prison sentence was being reduced as part of a larger prisoner pardon tied to a Buddhist religious holiday. State media said in addition to the amnesty granted to 1,519 prisoners, including 11 foreigners, the sentences of remaining convicted prisoners were cut by a sixth.Suu Kyi was originally sentenced to 33 years in prison in late 2022 for several offences that her supporters and rights groups described as attempts to discredit her and legitimise the army takeover that removed her from office and to prevent her return to politics.Thursday’s amnesty, the second applied to her in recent weeks, would bring her sentence down to 18 years with more than 13 years left to serve, according to the calculation.The decision to move the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner to house arrest was welcomed as a “meaningful step” towards a “credible political process”, a spokesman for United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.“We appreciate the commutation of Aung San Suu Kyi to a so-called house arrest in a designated residence. It is a meaningful step towards conditions conducive to a credible political process,” Stephane Dujarric told reporters.He reiterated the UN’s call for the “swift release” of all political prisoners in Myanmar.“It is good to hear that the house arrest has been confirmed, but we haven’t received any direct notification,” a ...
Myanmar ex-leader Aung San Suu Kyi moved to house arrest, state media ...
YANGON - Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved to house arrest, state media reported on April 30, over five years after the country's military ousted a civilian government led by the Nobel laureate and imprisoned her.Suu Kyi, 80, has been detained by the junta since and her whereabouts have been unclear amid a deadly civil war that was triggered by the February 2021 coup that has engulfed much of the impoverished Southeast Asian nation."...the remaining portion of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's sentence has been commuted to be served at a designated residence," state-run MRTV reported, using an honorific for the veteran politician.State media also broadcast a photograph of Ms Suu Kyi, seated on a wooden sofa and flanked by two uniformed personnel - the first public image of the Nobel laureate in years.Last December, her son Kim Aris told Reuters he has not heard from his mother in years, only receiving sporadic, secondhand details about her heart, bone and gum problems since her detention."It is good to hear that the house arrest has been confirmed but we haven't received any direct notification," a member of her legal team told Reuters. "We only found out about it from the news announcement."After a marathon run of trials, Ms Suu Kyi was sentenced to 33 years after convictions on charges ranging from corruption and inciting election fraud to violating state secrecy rules, which her allies maintain were politically motivated and aimed at sidelining her.That sentence was later commuted to 27 years, and then by a sixth in a Myanmar New Year amnesty on April 17 that freed her ally and co-defendant Win Myint, the former president.Earlier on April 30, her sentence was reduced by a further one-sixth as part of a wider amnesty of all prisoners in Myanmar's jails.Ms Suu Kyi was held under house arrest for a total of 15 years under a previous junta at her family residence on Yangon's Inya Lake, where she famously gave impassioned speeches to crowds of supporters over the metal gates of the property.Myanmar's junta chief-turned-president Min Aung Hlaing, who overthrew Ms Suu Kyi in the coup, has faced persistent international pressure to release political detainees since a recent election, including from the Southeast Asian bloc ASEAN, which he is seeking to reengage with after being barred from its summits.Min Aung Hlaing last week told Thailand's foreign minister she was being "well looked after" and his government was considering unspecified "g...
Myanmar Junta Moves Ex-Leader Aung San Suu Kyi to House Arrest
Myanmar's military-backed government announced Thursday that Aung San Suu Kyi will be moved to house arrest from Naypyidaw Prison to serve her remaining prison term, a conciliatory gesture a few ...
Detained Myanmar ex-leader Aung San Suu Kyi to be moved to house arrest ...
YANGON: Myanmar's president on Thursday (Apr 30) ordered deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to be moved to house arrest, five years after sweeping her into detention in a 2021 coup.A statement from ...
