Myanmar officials have confirmed that ousted democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi is now in house arrest after spending years in prison. Former Myanmar President Win Myint has also been transported ...

Sitting in a dimly-lit bamboo shelter in the world’s largest refugee camp, Rohingya Muslims like Azizur Rehman could be ...

Watch The Independent’s documentary Cancelled: The rise and fall of Aung San Suu Kyi The amnesty coincides ... gathered outside Yangon’s Insein Prison early on Thursday morning in hopes ...

Aung San Suu Kyi, photographed in June 2012 Getty Images ... shut down and the monk was arrested and sentenced to 63 years in prison. He withstood four years of torture and beatings and was ...

Myanmar authorities failed to auction off Aung San Suu Kyi's lakeside mansion on Tuesday -- the fourth time the sale of the jailed Nobel peace laureate's property has attracted no bidders.

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including state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint.” open image in gallery A relative celebrates with a prisoner released from Insein prison to commemorate the Buddhist New ...