Daw Aung San Suu Kyi ‘Seriously Ill with Heart Disease’

Myanmar’s 80-year-old democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is suffering from a worsening heart condition in a junta prison, her son said Thursday.

“It is deeply distressing to have heard my mother’s health has taken a turn for the worse,” Kim Aris told The Independent of the UK.

“She has had ongoing heart complications, which have undoubtedly been exacerbated by the conditions under which she is being held … and has asked to see a cardiologist from outside the prison,” Aris said.