France calls for release of jailed Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi in letter to Kim Aris

Kim Aris, the son of 80-year-old Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, shared a letter from French President Emmanuel Macron calling for the immediate release of Myanmar’s jailed State Counsellor on Tuesday. 

“I was very concerned to learn, through information provided by your son, of the deterioration of your health and the difficulty you face in accessing appropriate care, in the context of an unjust detention, which France has repeatedly denounced,” President Macron wrote in the letter addressed to Aung San Suu Kyi.

France, along with the U.S., the U.K., the E.U., Canada, Australia, and Japan, has repeatedly urged the regime, which ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) government in a military coup on Feb. 1, 2021, to release her unconditionally. 

“This brutal and bloody challenge has plunged your country into a long-term crisis, with dramatic consequences for its populations and neighbouring states… Our bilateral relations have been disrupted,” Macron added in the letter.