Myanmar's junta-chief turned president, Min Aung Hlaing, has ordered deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to be moved to house arrest, five years after sweeping her into detention in a 2021 coup.
The 80-year-old Suu Kyi will likely be kept sequestered at an address in the capital Naypyidaw, according to a senior source from her dissolved National League for Democracy (NLD) party.
Min Aung Hlaing, who traded his military title for the office of civilian president this month, has been accused of confecting charges against Suu Kyi to sideline her.
The move has been accompanied by some rollbacks of post-coup curbs and prisoner amnesties, which analysts have dismissed as lip-service measures to launder the leadership's reputation.
Suu Kyi remains massively popular inside Myanmar, but has been held almost completely incommunicado as her family warned of her ailing health.
