Myanmar reduces ex-leader Aung San Suu Kyi's sentence, her lawyer says - The Straits Times

In Myanmar, on 17 April 2026, the country’s president cut the jail term of ex-leader Aung San Suu Kyi and freed former president Win Myint, according to Reuters and other outlets. Suu Kyi’s lawyer said her sentence was reduced, and the president also commuted death sentences.

The Hindu, citing a source, wrote that Suu Kyi’s sentence was reduced under a mass amnesty. ABC News wrote that she is to be freed sooner, and NHK said her prison term is believed to have been reduced.