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Detained Suu Kyi receives UK royal package, says Myanmar govt

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi received a package from Britain's King Charles III on Monday, authorities said, releasing the first pictures of the detained Nobel laureate in two months and describing her as a "special female prisoner".

The Star Malaysia2026-10-19 22:54查看原文 ↗

Myanmar's former leader Aung San Suu Kyi receives books and a letter from Britain's King Charles from a Myanmar official in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on Monday, October 19, 2026. -- Photo: Myanmar Presidential Spokesperson/Handout via REUTERS

YANGON, Myanmar (AFP): Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi received a package from Britain's King Charles III on Monday, authorities said, releasing the first pictures of the detained Nobel laureate in two months and describing her as a "special female prisoner".

It is the first time Myanmar authorities have used the term to describe Suu Kyi, who was deposed in a military coup in 2021, triggering an ongoing civil war that has killed more than 100,000 people, according to monitor ACLED.

The coup leader and former junta chief Min Aung Hlaing was installed as civilian president in April following elections that did not include Suu Kyi's party, and she was moved to house arrest soon afterwards.

Home ministry officials met her on Monday to deliver a package of two books about soil, "one sealed envelope, and a sealed diplomatic communication sent by King Charles III of the United Kingdom to the special female detainee", Myanmar's presidential spokeswoman said on her Facebook page.

Britain is Myanmar's former colonial power and the monarch is known to have a keen interest in gardening and the environment.

Accompanying the statement were two images of Suu Kyi meeting two men with their backs to the camera.

The pictures appeared to be in a similar room to the last released images of her, when she met a Red Cross representative in August, her first publicised meeting with a foreign official since her ouster.

Fact-checkers from AFP examined the latest photos and found no evidence of manipulation using Meta Generative AI or OpenAI tools.

Suu Kyi remains detained on charges rights groups say were concocted to return power to the military, which has historically ruled Myanmar since independence.

"I have been extremely lenient toward her," Min Aung Hlaing said in an interview with Time magazine published last month.

The Foreign Office in London did not immediately respond to questions from AFP asking whether British diplomats had sought to deliver the package in person, or been refused permission to do so.

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2026年10月19日星期一，缅甸前领导人昂山素季在缅甸首都内比都从一名缅甸官员手中接过书籍和英国国王查尔斯的来信。——图片：缅甸总统发言人/路透社供图

缅甸仰光（法新社）：缅甸当局周一表示，英国国王查理三世向缅甸总理昂山素季寄送了一个包裹，这是这位被拘留的诺贝尔奖得主两个月来的首批照片，当局称她为“特殊的女性囚犯”。

这是缅甸当局首次使用“女权主义者”一词来形容昂山素季。昂山素季于 2021 年在军事政变中被推翻，引发了持续至今的内战，据监测机构 ACLED 称，这场内战已造成超过 10 万人死亡。

政变领导人、前军政府首脑敏昂莱在4月份举行的选举中被任命为文职总统，但昂山素季的政党并未参选。此后不久，昂山素季就被软禁在家。

缅甸总统发言人在其脸书页面上表示，内政部官员周一与她会面，并向她递送了一个包裹，里面有两本关于土壤的书籍，“一个密封信封，以及英国国王查尔斯三世寄给这位特殊女囚犯的密封外交信函”。

英国是缅甸的前殖民宗主国，而缅甸国王对园艺和环境保护有着浓厚的兴趣。

声明还附有两张照片，照片中昂山素季与两名男子会面，两人背对着镜头。

这些照片似乎拍摄于与她上次公开照片中类似的房间，当时她在 8 月份会见了一位红十字会代表，这是她被罢免后首次公开会见外国官员。