YANGON - Myanmar's leader, Min Aung Hlaing, has ordered that the country's deposed former leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, be moved from detention to house arrest. This decision comes five years after he swept her from power in a 2021 military coup.
A statement from the junta chief's office confirmed he "commuted the remaining sentence" of the 80-year-old Nobel laureate, allowing her to serve it at a designated residence. While the exact location remains unclear, a senior source from her dissolved National League for Democracy party told AFP she will likely be kept at an undisclosed address in the capital, Naypyidaw. The source spoke on condition of anonymity for security reasons.
Min Aung Hlaing, who led the coup that triggered a devastating civil war, was sworn in as Myanmar's civilian president this month after a tightly-controlled election that excluded Suu Kyi's party.