The son of the former myanmar chief Aung San Suu Kyi, said on Friday that his mother suffered from health problems and needed urgent medical care, calling for his release from military guard.
Kim Aris told Reuters that the 80 -year -old Nobel Peace Prize winner asked a cardiologist about a month ago, but that he could not determine if this request had been granted.
“I am extremely worried,” he said, according to Reuters. “There is no way to check if she is even alive.”
Aris said her mother also suffered from bone and gum problems and that she was probably injured in a March earthquake that killed more than 3,700 people.
The Myanmar government has not responded to requests for comments, reports Reuters.
Suu Kyi has been in police custody since the coup d’etat of February 2021 which dissolved the democratic parliament of Myanmar and installed a government led by General Min Aung Hlaing. She was found guilty of 19 accusations, including corruption, and sentenced to 33 years in prison. His sentence was then reduced to 27 years old.
Since then, its location has not been clear. Last year, a source close to the Leu Kyi legal team told RFA that she was in the isolation in Naycyidaw prison in the capital. At the time, members of his legal team had not seen him for over a year. Aris told RFA last year that he had received a letter from his mother, the first since 2022.
The daughter of Burmese independence chief Aung San, who was murdered at the age of two, Suu Kyi lived abroad until her return to Myanmar in 1988. She was detained by the army and owned in internal residence for 15 years, from 1989 to 2010.
Includes Reuters’ reports.