Suu Kyi's health worsens in jail as son pleads for release

The son of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has issued a stark warning about her deteriorating health, urging the ruling military junta to grant her access to urgent medical care and calling on the international community to intervene.

- HARRY COCKBURN

Kim Aris told The Independent his 80-year-old mother, who has been imprisoned since the military coup in February 2021, has been suffering from a worsening heart condition.

“It is deeply distressing to have heard my mother's health has taken a turn for the worse,” he said. “She has had ongoing heart complications, which have undoubtedly been exacerbated by the conditions under which she is being held, and needs to see, and has asked to see, a cardiologist from outside the prison. I have no way of knowing if this has been granted.”

Ms Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and longtime symbol of Myanmar's pro-democracy movement, has been held in solitary confinement for much of her detention. Her imprisonment is the subject of an