Myanmar releases new Suu Kyi photos as King Charles sends package to ‘special prisoner’

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi received a package from Britain's King Charles III, marking the first use of the term "special female prisoner" by authorities.

This comes amidst ongoing conflicts following Suu Kyi's ousting in the 2021 military coup.

Images recently released of Suu Kyi, still under house arrest, show her receiving books and a sealed communication from the King.

Despite calls from the UK for her release, Suu Kyi remains detained on widely criticized charges viewed as efforts by the military to consolidate power.

YANGON, Oct 20 — 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.

In response to questions from AFP the Foreign Office in London did not say whether British diplomats had sought to deliver the package in person, or been refused permission to do so.

Britain condemns what it describes as Suu Kyi’s “arbitrary detention” and calls for her immediate and unconditional release. — AFP

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缅甸总理昂山素季收到了英国国王查理三世寄来的包裹，这是当局首次使用“特殊女囚”一词。

此前，昂山素季在2021年军事政变中被推翻，此后冲突持续不断。

最近公布的昂山素季照片显示，她仍在软禁中，照片中她收到了国王寄来的书籍和密封信件。

尽管英国方面呼吁释放昂山素季，但她仍被拘留，其所受指控受到广泛批评，被认为是军方巩固权力的举措。

仰光，10 月 20 日——缅甸当局称，昂山素季周一收到了英国国王查理三世寄来的包裹，这是这位被拘留的诺贝尔奖得主两个月来的首批照片，并称她为“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致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。

法新社的事实核查人员检查了最新照片，没有发现使用元生成人工智能或 OpenAI 工具进行篡改的证据。

昂山素季仍被拘留，人权组织称这些指控是捏造的，目的是为了让军方重新掌权。自缅甸独立以来，军方一直统治着缅甸。

“我对她一直非常宽容，”敏昂莱在上个月发表于《时代》杂志的采访中说道。

针对法新社的提问，伦敦外交部没有说明英国外交官是否曾试图亲自递送包裹，或者是否被拒绝递送。

英国谴责对昂山素季的“任意拘留”，并呼吁立即无条件释放她。——法新社

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