Aung San Suu Kyi meets Red Cross official in rare publicized meeting since 2021 arrest during coup

In a rare moment of contact with the outside world, jailed Myanmar civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with Arnaud de Baecque, the Resident Representative and Head of Delegation for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in Naypyidaw on Monday.

Regime spokesperson Khaing Khaing Soe announced the meeting on Aug. 3, circulating photographs showing the 81-year-old Nobel laureate shaking hands with de Baecque in a wood-paneled room, alongside images showing her cutting a birthday cake to mark her 81st birthday on June 19, 2026.

The release marks only the second time the regime has made official photographs of Aung San Suu Kyi public since detaining her on Feb. 1, 2021 during the military coup.