Red Cross visits Aung San Suu Kyi after Myanmar military pushed to prove she is alive

Aung San Suu Kyi with Arnaud de Baecque, resident representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross to Myanmar, in Naypyidaw. Photograph: Myanmar's Presidential Press and Information Bureau/AFP/Getty Images

Myanmar’s detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has met a representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the aid organisation has confirmed.

The meeting on Monday ⁠followed years of questions over the wellbeing of the 81-year-old, whose whereabouts and health condition have been largely unknown since the elected civilian government she led was ousted by a military coup in February 2021.