News about Aung San Suu Kyi

Suu Kyi, 78, has been detained by the Myanmar military since it overthrew her government in a 2021 coup. She has been moved from prison to house arrest, a spokesperson for the military government told media. In February, her son Kim Aris said she was being held in solitary confinement and that she was in good spirits 'even if her health is not as good as it was in the past'.

When her government was deposed in a coup, Australian professor Sean Turnell had been advising Myanmar's democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi on economic policy. The 57-year-old was arrested and sentenced to a string of prisons, including the notorious Insein jail. Turnell was jailed for midnight interrogations, forced to live with rats and scorpions, and defend himself against ridiculous allegations that he was an agent for the M16. Turnell recited world leaders, named the 50 US states in his head, and read Enid Blyton's children's books to keep himself sane. The self-described nerdy academic has now chronicled his experiences in his book The Unlikely Prisoner.

According to her British son, Aung San Suu Kyi needs "urgent care" in jail after 'vomitting and extreme dizziness, but the military junta refused her care, which forced her out of office. Fears about the Myanmar democracy leader's health are on the increase, as she has been left in such distress by gum disease drugs that she has been unable to digest. According to local reports, prison authorities turned down a plea for private care for the 78-year-old, which was refused. Kim Yaris (inset), the youngest child of her mother's London family, has now petitioned with the military authorities to encourage his ailing mother to be hospitalized. Since Suu Kyi's deposition and arrest in February 2021, General Min Aung Hlaing (right), the military junta's leader, has ruled Myanmar.

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Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's deposed king, was sentenced to another seven years in jail on Tuesday, bringing her total prison term to 33 years. In a court session held behind closed doors, the 77-year-old was found guilty of fraud. It was the latest in a line of criminal charges against her that had sparked, which human rights organisations suspect of political persecution. Ms Suu Kyi was Myanmar's political leader for five years from 2015 to the army deposed her government in February 2021.

When imprisoned in Insein jail (inset) in Burma on trumped-up charges, economic professor Sean Turnell battled rats, scorpions, and several bouts of Covid. When she was deposed by a military coup in February, 2021, the scholar was on the invitation of democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi to advise on economic reforms. Prof Turnell was finally released by the military junta two weeks ago and reunited with his wife Dr. Ha Vu in Bangkok, then returned to Australia. During Question Time on Thursday, the two special guests were welcomed in the Australian House of Representatives, where they received a standing ovation.

Sean Turnell (left), an Australian professor who was jailed by Myanmar's military regime, was brutally interrogated while sitting in a chair in a crowded solitary confinement cell and battled disease from eating out of communal buckets, and was exposed to extreme weather conditions, including rats and scorpions (top right, Insein jail in Yangon). Prof Turnell, a consultant to Myanmar's democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi before she was deposed in a military coup in early 2021, was found guilty of being a spy and sentenced to three years in prison, but she returned to Australia ten days later. Prof Turnell and his wife Vu Ha (bottom right), who kept up the academic's spirits by baking Anzac biscuits and fruit cake, which Prof Turnell received in diplomatic pouches from the Australian embassy, have been reunited.

Professor Sean Turnell, 58, (left with Ha Vu) - an economic advisor to former President Aung San Suu Kyi (inset) was arrested immediately after the coup in February last year and sentenced to three years in prison. Vicky Bowman, a former British ambassador, was arrested in August with her Myanmar-national husband and was sentenced to a year in prison. They were released as part of the military junta's release of 700 prisoners.

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Sean Turnell (left, in prison last year) with Aung San Suu Kyi (left, with Turnell) was sentenced to three years in Myanmar. For almost 20 months, the Sydney economics professor has been detained. He was arrested five days after security forces took over a hotel in Yangon, the country's largest city, in February. He was waiting for a taxi to whisk him to the city's international airport. He had returned from Australia to Suu Kyi less than a month before being arrested.

According to an AFP news agency, Vicky Bowman (left) and her husband (right) - Burmese artist Htein Lin - were sentenced to a year in prison. Neither Myanmar's military nor the British embassy have publicly confirmed the court's decision, but the diplomatic source said Bowman was sentenced to prison in Southeast Asia for failure to register her residence. The diplomat insisted on not being identified because he was not authorized to reveal such details. The court has not heard from either Myanmar's military government nor the British embassy that has publicly announced the court's decision. Bowman, a former ambassador who served from 2002 to 2006, was arrested in Yangon on August 24 with her husband.

On Friday, a Myanmar junta court sentenced ousted chief Aung San Suu Kyi to three years in jail for voting manipulation in 2020, which her party won in a landslide. According to a person familiar with the situation, Suu Kyi was sentenced to three years in prison with hard labour.' Suu Kyi has already been found guilty of graft and a string of other offences by a closed junta court and sentenced to 17 years in jail since being detained since a putsch last year. Journalists have been refused entry to court in Naypyidaw, and her lawyers have been forbidden from speaking to the media.

According to a person close to the lawsuit, a Myanmar junta court sentenced Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to six years in jail for misconduct on Monday. Following a violent uprising in the junta, the indictment of the ousted leader's prison term was extended to 17 years. Suu Kyi, 77, has been detained after the generals deposed her government on February 1 last year, putting an end to the Southeast Asian nation's brief period of democracy. She has since been charged with a string of offences, including violating the official secrets act, nepote, and electoral fraud. If found guilty on all counts, she will spend decades in prison. According to the source, Suu Kyi was sentenced to'six years in jail on four counts of anti-corruption.' Each accusation was sentenced to at least 15 years in prison. Suu Kyi was sentenced to three years in each, but three of the sentences would be served concurrently, according to the source.