US Calls for Immediate Release of Deposed Myanmar Leader Aung San Suu Kyi
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The United States has called for the immediate release of Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's deposed civilian leader who was removed from power in a military coup in February 2021. Myanmar's current military president has ordered her transfer to house arrest from prison, where she had been held since the coup. Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who led Myanmar's transition to democracy before the military seized control, has faced numerous charges from the ruling junta and has been sentenced to decades in prison on various counts including corruption and incitement.