Overview
- Now 80, she is believed to be held in near-total isolation in a military prison in Nay Pyi Taw with no verified updates on her health and no access to lawyers for at least two years.
- Following the 2021 coup, courts handed her sentences totaling 27 years on charges widely described as fabricated.
- Her son, Kim Aris, says she has worsening heart issues and requested an outside cardiologist, while the junta insists she is in good health.
- The National Unity Government and rights advocates call her detention a profound injustice and urge her release along with more than 20,000 political prisoners.
- The military is conducting staggered elections critics say are engineered to entrench its rule after purging the NLD, as the ICJ convenes this week on The Gambia’s genocide case over the Rohingya.