Kochi: The 80-year-old Nobel Laureate and former Myanmar leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who was arrested in 2021, was shifted from prison to house arrest, BBC reported.
The 80-year-old Nobel laureate has been held in detention – probably in a military prison in the capital Nay Pyi Taw – since she was removed from office in a military coup in 2021.
Aung San Suu Kyi came to power in 2015 after she spent decades of military rule as a pro-democracy activist, and was previously held for more than 15 years under house arrest.
She came to power after Myanmar’s then rulers introduced democratic reforms.
A statement by military leader Min Aung Hlaing, who led the coup, said he had “commuted her remaining sentence to be served at the designated residence”.
On April 30, 2026, authorities had announced Suu Kyi’s sentence commutation of her sentence as part of a prisoner amnesty marking a Buddhist holiday, the Full Moon Day of Kason honoring Buddha’s birthday.
The amnesty covered 1,519 prisoners and cut the sentences for those still in prison by one-sixth.
The amnesties came after Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing was sworn into office as President April 10 following an election.
Suu Kyi was originally sentenced to 33 years in prison in late 2022 for several alleged offenses.
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