(CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Father: Aung San, commander of the Burma Independence Army. Helped negotiate Burma’s independence ...

FILE - In this June 15, 2012, file photo, Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi briefs the media after a meeting with Norway Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg at the Norway government guest house ...

It is rare for an international arrest warrant to be issued against a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and political prisoner whose release is demanded by both the UN General Assembly and the UN Security ...

This is the story of Aung San Suu Kyi. Mother to two sons, fate and history conspired to bring her to the forefront of Myanmar's push for democratic freedom, the world rushing to build her up as an ...

It said she had failed to act against her country's persecution of the Rohingya. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum said Wednesday it was rescinding a major human rights award it gave Nobel laureate ...

Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi faces her date with destiny today when she appears at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Netherlands to defend her country in a genocide case. A ...

The son of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has pleaded for her release from prison amid fears for the 79-year-old’s health in the country’s “terrible” prisons. Kim Aris told The Independent his ...

In Burma, also called Myanmar, Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced today to three years at hard labor for illegally harboring an American tourist. But the Chairman of the ruling ...

U Kyi Toe, ex-chief of the NLD’s Information Committee, pledged ‘to be strong to work together’ with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who remains jailed in Naypyitaw.

Four young men file into a conference room in downtown Rangoon, dressed in 1940s military uniform, and stand in front of a panel of Burma’s top cultural figures. Some of the panel members have ...

BANGKOK — Thousands of supporters of Myanmar’s jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi celebrated her 80th birthday Thursday by attempting to set a world record for the most birthday greeting videos, ...