Asean envoy urges junta to spare Suu Kyi from prison

THE kingdom has called on Myanmar’s ruling State Administration Council (SAC) to release former civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi from solitary confinement.

Prak Sokhonn – the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation who is also presently serving as the Asean chair’s special envoy on Myanmar – made the call on Monday after Suu Kyi was reportedly transferred last week from house arrest in Naypyidaw to what observers described as much harsher conditions in the solitary confinement wing of the capital’s prison.