PARIS: The son of Myanmar’s deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tue­sday demanded France’s help in seeking independently verified proof of his mother’s life after she was transferred to house arrest, her lawyers said.

The country’s junta chief-turned-president Min Aung Hlaing on Thursday ordered the 80-year-old Nob­­­­el Peace Prize winner to be moved, five years after putting her into dete­n­­­­tion in a coup. But her son, Kim Aris, says he has still not heard from his mother, who remains massively popular inside Myanmar.

“I implore France to join my call so that we may obtain independently verified proof of life, and so th­­­­­­at her fundamental righ­­ts are guaranteed: appropriate medical care, access to her lawyers and to her family,” he wrote in a letter addressed to French Presi­dent Emmanuel Macron.

Suu Kyi’s lawyer, Francois Zimeray, said that Aris handed the letter to France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot at a meeting on Tuesday. “We have had no proof of life, no photos for years, not even any indication that she was actually transferred. We still don’t know where she is,” he said.

Published in Dawn, May 6th, 2026