- Kim Aris, son of Aung San Suu Kyi, has reiterated his demand for Myanmar authorities to provide "proof of life" for his mother, expressing concerns about her well-being more than two weeks after she was reportedly moved to house arrest.
- Mr Aris stated that despite a state media photo released on 30 April, there is still no credible, independently verified evidence that his 81-year-old mother, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is alive, calling her a "hostage" and demanding to know her whereabouts.
- Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested in February 2021 during a military coup that seized power from her elected government, and she has not been seen publicly since May 2021, with her son noting that moving her from one secret place to another is not freedom.
- Her sentence was recently reduced as part of a broad prisoner amnesty for a Buddhist holiday, leading to her transfer from prison to an undisclosed "specific home" for the remainder of her term, alongside the release of over 1,500 other prisoners.
- These amnesties, which also freed former president Win Myint, followed the swearing-in of military general Min Aung Hlaing as president on 10 April, with critics suggesting the new civilian government maintains the military's tight grip on power.
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