Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi has been incommunicado for over 3 years, family says
- Suu Kyi’s son Kim Aris told Italian media the family had not heard from Myanmar’s former leader since she was ousted and arrested in 2021
“In three and a half years, we have only received one letter from her, last January,” her son Kim Aris told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica in an interview published on Sunday.
After that, neither he nor his brother ever heard from her again, Aris added, not even after Suu Kyi’s transfer from prison in April.
The army ousted and arrested Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s democratically elected de facto head of government, following a coup in February 2021. A court controlled by the military junta later sentenced her to a total of 33 years in prison for numerous alleged crimes.
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In 2023, the military junta reduced Suu Kyi’s sentence by six years. In April, she was transferred from prison in the capital Naypyidaw to another location. According to her son, the family has not been informed of her whereabouts.
