A protester holds up a poster featuring Aung San Suu Kyi during a demonstration against the military coup in front of the ...

Toru Kubota backed calls from three former foreign secretaries William Hague, Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw for Aung San ...

A Japanese filmmaker sentenced to 10 years in jail in Myanmar has backed calls for Aung San Suu Kyi to be freed. Toru Kubota, who was arrested while covering a protest in Yangon and whose case led ...

The son of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has pleaded for her release from prison amid fears for the 79-year-old’s health in the country’s “terrible” prisons. Kim Aris told The ...

A former minister whose family left Myanmar for Britain has added his voice to growing calls for freedom for Aung San Suu Kyi ...

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Myanmar’s democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, will turn 80 next summer amid growing concerns about her deteriorating health. Unless there is a significant political change in her country, she looks ...

Myanmar's military government has released more than 6,000 prisoners and has reduced other inmates' sentences as part of a ...

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 ...