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Myanmar’s detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved to house arrest, state media reported on Thursday, 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 Suu Kyi, seated on a wooden sofa and ⁠flanked by two uniformed personnel – the first public image of the Nobel laureate in years.
At the UN in New York, spokesman Stephane Dujarric welcomed the news.
“We’ve just seen the reports,” he said. “I can tell you that 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 credible political process.”
However, in a statement, her son Kim ⁠Aris said Thursday’s announcement by Myanmar authorities did little to dispel fears about her condition or even confirm that she was still alive.
“I still do ‌not know where my mother is. I do not know how she is. I remain deeply concerned about whether she is still alive,” he said. “If she is alive, I ask for proof of life.”

Last December, Aris said he had not heard from his mother in years, only receiving sporadic, second-hand details about her heart, bone and gum problems since her detention.
Suu Kyi’s legal team planned to meet her on Sunday to discuss her position and bring her ‌some supplies.
“Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is currently still in Naypyidaw,” a member of her legal team said.
“The situation has shifted. I think it will no longer be just a standard prison visit, ⁠but rather a meeting ⁠where the legal team will go and discuss matters with her.”
After a marathon run of trials, 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 Thursday, her sentence was reduced by a further one-sixth as part ⁠of a wider amnesty of all prisoners in Myanmar’s jails.
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 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 re-engage 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 “good things”.


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State media broadcast a photograph of the Nobel laureate ⁠flanked by two uniformed personnel – the first public image of her in years


State media broadcast a photograph of the Nobel laureate ⁠flanked by two uniformed personnel – the first public image of her in years.


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Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi moved from prison to house arrest

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State media broadcast a photograph of the Nobel laureate ⁠flanked by two uniformed personnel – the first public image of her in years