The democracy campaigner has spent 20 years in total in detention, five of them since being overthrown by a coup.

Myanmar's top general Min Aung Hlaing was months from retirement five years ago when he made an about-face, deposed the democratic government and promoted himself to leader.

Myanmar’s democracy icon has now spent two decades incarcerated or under house arrest. Shweta Sharma reports on another grim milestone for a country wrecked by brutal military rule and embroiled in a

The military-backed party claims to have won 90 per cent of the available seats so far in a poll activists have derided as ‘engineered’.