Overview
- Aung San Suu Kyi has now spent a cumulative 20 years in detention, including five since the February 2021 coup.
- Since the coup she has received sentences totaling 27 years on charges widely described by observers as fabricated, with no access to her lawyers for at least two years.
- Her son, Kim Aris, appeals for her release and reports concerns about worsening heart problems, while the military insists she is in good health.
- The generals are conducting phased elections criticized as engineered to entrench their rule after banning her National League for Democracy from participating.
- The International Court of Justice convened this week on The Gambia’s genocide case over the Rohingya crackdown, as the exiled National Unity Government and rights groups press for her freedom and that of more than 20,000 political prisoners.