Suu Kyi’s son urges Myanmar army to free her

Kim Aris, the youngest son of Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, has urged the army to release his mother, who is currently in jail after she was handed a 33-year sentence in a series of trials following the coup that toppled her democratically-elected government in February 2021. Kim Aris, the youngest son of Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, has urged the army to release his mother who is currently in jail after she was handed a 33-year sentence in a series of trials following the coup that toppled her democratically-elected government in February 2021. Speaking to the BBC in London, Aris, a British national, said that “I can’t let my mother languish in prison”, and urged the global community to do more to help the 78-year-old Nobel Laureate. Aris claimed that the military has not given him any information about his mother and that despite contacting the Embassy of Myanmar in London, the British Foreign Office and the International Red Cross, there has been no help. “Before this, I didn’t want to speak to the media or get involved too much,” the 46-year-old told the BBC in his first-ever interview with international media. He had not spoken out when his mother was detained for nearly 15 years between 1989 and 2010. “It was better that I stayed out of politics. My mother never wanted me to be involved. But now that she has been sentenced, and the military are clearly not being reasonable, I think I can say what I want.” Suu Kyi, who was under house arrest following the coup, was moved to solitary confinement last year in a prison in the capital Nay Pyi Taw.