Aung San Suu Kyi meets Red Cross envoy

Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi ​met with a representative of the ‌International Committee of the Red Cross on Monday, a spokeswoman for the Myanmar government said, amid concerns over the ​health of the 81-year-old.

The Nobel ​Prize winner has been in detention since ⁠February 2021 when Myanmar's military ousted an ​elected civilian government led by her in a ​dawn coup, plunging the impoverished Southeast Asian nation into turmoil.

Since then, Suu Kyi's exact whereabouts and health ​conditions have been difficult to determine, with ​no foreign leader or envoy having publicly met her.

On ‌Monday, ⁠Suu Kyi met with Arnaud de Baecque, Resident Representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to Myanmar in the capital Naypyitaw, ​government spokeswoman ​Khine Khine ⁠Soe said in a message via Telegram.

The ICRC did not ​immediately respond to a request for ​comment.

⁠In late April, following a military-engineered election that allowed former junta leader Min Aung Hlaing to ⁠become ​Myanmar's president and amid growing ​international pressure, authorities said that she had been moved to house ​arrest.

-Reuters