Myanmar junta pardons ex-leader Suu Kyi for five offences: State media

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The Nobel Laureate last week moved from prison to house arrest in the capital, Naypyitaw. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The military’s State Administration Council also pardoned former president Win Myint, who was also arrested at the same time as Suu Kyi after the 2021 coup, on some of the charges for which he was convicted resulting in a reduction of four years in his jail term, the junta spokesman was quoted as saying.

In 1991, she won the Nobel Peace Prize for campaigning for democracy but was only fully released from house arrest in 2010.

 

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