Myanmar's deposed civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been transferred to house arrest after the military detained her following a coup in February 2021.
Ms. Suu Kyi was taken to a government building in Nay Pyi Taw on Monday, according to sources from the prison, as reported by BBC Burmese. She had spent a year in solitary confinement.
The 78-year-old is currently serving a 33-year sentence after being convicted in closed-door, military-run trials.
For more than two years, very little information about her condition has been made public.
Although there has been no official confirmation of her transfer from jail, the move to house arrest could be seen as a positive sign from the military authorities, who have faced widespread calls to release the democratically-elected leader of the country.
There were rumors about Ms. Suu Kyi's health, but the military has denied these reports. A source from the Nay Pyi Taw prison, where she was held, informed BBC Burmese earlier this week that she was in good health.
Thailand's foreign minister also revealed this month that he had visited Ms. Suu Kyi; however, no further details were disclosed.
The military has arranged a meeting between Ms. Suu Kyi and T Khun Myat, the Speaker of the lower house of parliament, according to BBC Burmese. However, no details of the meeting have been confirmed.
Since the coup, Myanmar has descended into civil war, resulting in the deaths of thousands of people. The imposition of sanctions on the military has not been effective in curbing the violence.
The 78-year-old Nobel laureate was initially placed under house arrest until June this year when she was transferred to solitary confinement in a prison in the country's capital.
She vehemently denies all of the accusations made against her, and rights groups have condemned the court trials as fraudulent.
As the daughter of independence hero General Aung San, she emerged as a prominent leader in the pro-democracy movement against the military dictatorship. In 1989, she co-founded the National League for Democracy (NLD) but was placed under house arrest.
Ms. Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and became one of the world's foremost democracy advocates. Her release from detention in 2010 was celebrated both in Myanmar and globally. However, she faced criticism later on for defending her country against allegations of genocide at the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) amid widespread claims that Myanmar had committed atrocities against the Muslim Rohingya while her government was in power. Nearly a million Rohingya people have fled Myanmar in recent years and sought refuge in neighboring Bangladesh.
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