As every schoolboy knows, Jonathan Franzen is one of the world’s great living writers, having emerged from the shadows of obscurity and straight into a spotlit Oprah brouhaha with his novel The ...

The Independent has been hailed for shining a light on the continued imprisonment of Aung San Suu Kyi by a brutal military ...

Aung San Suu Kyi’s son has made a direct plea to the military junta in Myanmar holding her in solitary confinement to release her on the fourth anniversary of her arrest. The imprisonment of the ...

Myanmar’s military government must release jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Foreign Secretary David Lammy has said. The Foreign Secretary said Britain had “not forgotten” those “arbitrarily ...

The Foreign Secretary has called on Myanmar’s military government to free political detainees, including Aung San Suu Kyi. (Jonathan Brady/PA) Myanmar’s military government must release jailed ...

A Japanese filmmaker sentenced to 10 years in jail in Myanmar has backed calls for Aung San Suu Kyi to be freed. Toru Kubota, who was arrested while covering a protest in Yangon and whose case led ...

It has been a year since the son of deposed former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi received a handwritten letter from his mother, the only contact he has had with her since she was detained. “ ...

Myanmar’s military government must release jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Foreign Secretary David Lammy has said. The Foreign Secretary said Britain had “not forgotten” those ...

Mr Lammy told The Independent: "Four years ago, Myanmar's military overthrew Aung San Suu Kyi's democratically elected government, stripping the Myanmar people of their right to a democratic voice.