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

Myanmar’s democracy icon has now spent two decades incarcerated or under house arrest. Shweta Sharma reports on another grim ...

Voting was held Sunday in the final round of Myanmar's general election, concluding a monthlong process widely denounced as illegitimate.

The UK’s foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, is leading a new push to free Myanmar’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi as sham elections in the country are set to begin. The Foreign Office (FCDO) has ...

Aung San Suu Kyi has spent 20 years imprisoned – will she live to see freedom? - COMMENT: After two decades of confinement, Myanmar’s most famous political prisoner is in failing health and faces her ...

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Myanmar’s military rulers have ordered the release of more than 6,000 prisoners to mark the country’s Independence Day. While families rushed to wait outside prisons on Sunday to see if their loved ...

Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been siloed in military detention since a 2021 coup, but her absence looms large over junta-run polls the generals are touting as a return to democracy. The ...

The first phase had a turnout of around 50 percent, far below the roughly 70 percent of the 2020 election Myanmar's junta opened polls on Sunday in the second phase of elections, continuing a vote ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Even the mildest public criticism of Myanmar’s military rulers is punished with ferocious jail terms. But in private, hostility to ...