Min Aung Hlaing likes to boast that his family always comes first. Given his track record of scattering titles like confetti, many are now predicting that his children, Aung Pyay Sone and Khin Thiri ...

“In this spirit we call on the military to announce a full amnesty for detainees it has incarcerated since February 2021, including state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint.

Myanmar’s military junta has pardoned nearly 5,000 prisoners as part of an annual new year’s amnesty, but there are no indications that prominent political prisoners like ousted leader Aung San Suu ...

Watch The Independent’s documentary Cancelled: The rise and fall of Aung San Suu Kyi The amnesty coincides with Thingyan, Myanmar’s traditional new year festival, and follows a 7.7-magnitude ...

Aung San Suu Kyi, photographed in June 2012 Getty Images On a steamy evening at the beginning of the rainy season, a crowd of 10,000 packs the street outside the National League for Democracy ...

Myanmar has been under military rule since February 2021, when its army ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi's elected government. The head of Myanmar's military junta has granted amnesty to ...

Myanmar has been under military rule since February 2021, when its army ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government. The takeover was met with nonviolent resistance, which has ...

Around 22,197 political detainees, including Myanmar's military-ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, have been in detention as of last week, according to the Assistance Association for ...