Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has accused a minister of making remarks that could prejudice her appeal against an extension of her house arrest, her lawyer said Friday. According to news reports this week by the U.S.-government backed ...

YANGON (Reuters) - Detained Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said a government minister's comment that she would be freed in November could be contempt of court as she appeals her sentence. Home Minister Major General Maung Oo told a January 21 meeting of local officials the 64-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner would be released in November, a month ...

The United States called Tuesday for Myanmar to immediately release democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi after signals that the junta could free her following controversial elections. The Nobel laureate's party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), said it had heard that the military regime was considering freeing her in November -- meeting global demands for her release but only ...

The political party of Myanmar's detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has heard that the military regime could set her free in November, a spokesman said on Monday. The Nobel peace laureate has been kept in detention for 14 of the past 20 years, and in August she was ordered to spend another 18 months in detention after ...