Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi received a package from Britain’s King Charles III on Monday (October 19, 2026), 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 Ms. The coup leader and former junta chief Min Aung Hlaing was installed as civilian president in April following elections that did not include Ms. Suu Kyi’s party, and she was moved to house arrest soon afterwards. Accompanying the statement were two images of Ms. Suu Kyi meeting two men with their backs to the camera.
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 .
“I have been extremely lenient toward her,” Mr. Hlaing said in an interview with Time magazine published last month.
