Aung San Suu Kyi

Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, has been released from house arrest in Burma, or Myanmar. Channel 4 News looks at her rise to lead National League for Democracy (NLD).

The Burmese opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is set to be freed from her latest spell of house arrest. Our Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Jonathan Miller, reports.

Aung San Suu Kyi has been released from house arrest today, after a total of 15 years and 20 days in detention. What next? Author and human rights activist Benedict Rogers reports.

Euphoria ripples through Burma as pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is released. The generals, who rule by fear, will be running scared says our foreign correspondent Jonathan Miller.

Our Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Rugman finds that few of those in the know are optimistic that the Burmese authorities will follow through on their hints of freeing Aung San Suu Kyi.

It crawls on, more a display of power over an individual than a legal process, one which people look to to guage quite how confident a military dictatorship feels. Aung San Suu Kyi today heard her defence’s closing arguments in her trial. In a Burmese court, inside the notorious Insein jail, she’s been standing before…

By the time you are reading this I hope to be supping on mozzarella di bufala in a medieval Italian hilltop town full of churches stuffed with paintings by Renaissance masters. The reality will probably be that I shall be going through umpteen security scanners along with some 3000 other journalists queuing for the G8…

The story of the unwanted visitor to the world’s only Nobel laureate-political prisoner makes truly bizarre reading. It’s so weird, in fact, that it could really only happen in a country whose political manoeuvrings are stage-managed by a military junta. Burma’s “ministry of truth” appears to have fooled only the generals into thinking that everything’s…