Kim Aris warned that "For all I know, she could be dead already" as he urged politicians in Tokyo to press for his mother’s release, after the Myanmar junta insisted she is "in good health".Aung San Suu Kyi, a
Nobel Prize laureate detained since the 2021 coup and serving a 27-year sentence she denies, has been denied contact with her legal team and family, and the junta says it will prosecute more than 200 people ahead of the multi-phase election beginning next Sunday amid skepticism and reports that over 22,000 people have been jailed on political grounds since the coup.