YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar’s coup chief-turned-president cut all prisoners’ sentences by one-sixth on Thursday, a blanket measure that a source close to deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi said would further shorten her detention.
Suu Kyi has been sequestered since the army’s Feb. 1, 2021 coup, but the senior member of her dissolved National League for Democracy (NLD) party said that while her term had been reduced, her remaining sentence was still unclear.
“We also don’t know exactly how many years she has left,” the source told Agence France-Presse (AFP), speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons.