Aung San Suu Kyi meets Red Cross official, military-backed government says, after proof of life campaign

Myanmar's detained former leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi met with a representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Monday, according to a government spokesperson. This marks her first public meeting with a foreign official in several years, and comes in response to international concerns about her health.

A photograph released by the military-backed government shows Suu Kyi, 81, in traditional Burmese dress, smiling and shaking hands with the ICRC's resident representative. Suu Kyi has been detained by the military since 2021, when they overthrew the civilian government she led in a coup. Since then, her whereabouts and condition have been kept secret as a civil war has raged across the country, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths and millions of displaced people.

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