Kim Aris says ‘hearing her voice again means more than words can express’ amid loosening of detention restrictions

The son of Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi has been allowed to speak to the detained former democratic leader for the first time in more than five years.

“Today, I was finally able to speak with my mother, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, after more than five years. Hearing her voice again means more than words can express,” Kim Aris said in a post on Facebook on Thursday.

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© Photograph: Spokesperson for the President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: Spokesperson for the President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: Spokesperson for the President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar/AFP/Getty Images

Dirigentes do Ministério do Interior de Myanmar reuniram-se com Suu Kyi, a cumprir pena em prisão domiciliária, para entregar um pacote enviado pelo rei Carlos III, do Reino Unido.

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