James Hookway is a foreign news editor at The Wall Street Journal.

Myanmar’s military junta has pardoned nearly 5,000 prisoners as part of an annual new year’s amnesty, but there are no ...

Josh Chin is a senior global correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, based in Asia. He specializes in investigations and ...

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Aung San Suu Kyi, the elected leader of Myanmar, is reported to have survived last week’s devastating earthquake unharmed in the prison cell where she is kept in solitary confinement.

“In this spirit we call on the military to announce a full amnesty for detainees it has incarcerated since February 2021, including state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint.