Myanmar’s detained ex-leader Suu Kyi receives package from King Charles III

Military-backed government says it delivered two books and diplomatic correspondence to Aung San Suu Kyi.

This handout photograph released on October 19, 2026 by Myanmar's Ministry of Home Affairs shows Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi meeting with Ministry officials in Naypyidaw, where she received a package from Britain's King Charles III [AFP]

Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi has received a package from King Charles III, its military-backed government said, releasing the first pictures of the detained Nobel laureate in two months.

Home ministry officials met the country’s former leader on Monday to deliver the parcel containing two books about soil and sealed diplomatic correspondence from the British monarch, Myanmar’s presidential spokeswoman said on her Facebook page. Britain is Myanmar’s former colonial power and King Charles is known to have a keen interest in gardening and the environment.

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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 she was ousted more than five years ago.

Myanmar authorities referred to Suu Kyi as a “special female prisoner” on Tuesday, the first time they have used the term to describe the pro-democracy and human rights advocate, whose global reputation suffered after she rejected accusations of genocide committed against Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority.

Suu Kyi was deposed in a military coup in 2021, triggering an ongoing civil war that has killed more than 100,000 people, according to conflict monitor ACLED.

The coup leader and former military government 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.

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 international community, including Britain, has called for Suu Kyi’s release and access to her as part of efforts to resolve the country’s political crisis, but the government has rejected those calls.

军方支持的政府称，他们已向昂山素季递送了两本书和外交信函。

这张由缅甸内政部于 2026 年 10 月 19 日发布的照片​​显示，被拘留的缅甸前领导人昂山素季在内比都会见了内政部官员，并在那里收到了英国国王查理三世寄来的包裹。[法新社]

缅甸军方支持的政府表示，昂山素季收到了国王查理三世寄来的包裹，并公布了这位被拘留的诺贝尔奖得主两个月来的首张照片。

缅甸总统发言人在其脸书页面上表示，内政部官员周一会见了该国前领导人，并向其递交了一个包裹，内含两本关于土壤的书籍和英国国王的密封外交信函。英国是缅甸的前殖民宗主国，众所周知，查尔斯国王对园艺和环境保护有着浓厚的兴趣。

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声明附带两张照片，照片中昂山素季背对镜头与两名男子会面。照片拍摄地点似乎与她上次公开的照片拍摄地点相似，上次公开的照片是她在8月份会见红十字会代表，那是她自五年多前被赶下台以来首次公开会见外国官员。

缅甸当局周二称昂山素季为“特殊女囚”，这是他们首次用这个词来形容这位民主和人权倡导者。此前，她否认了针对缅甸穆斯林罗兴亚少数族裔的种族灭绝指控，导致其国际声誉受损。

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，据冲突监测机构 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。

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。

包括英国在内的国际社会呼吁释放昂山素季并允许外界探视她，以此作为解决缅甸政治危机努力的一部分，但缅甸政府拒绝了这些呼吁。