Aung San Suu Kyi

She is expected to make a statement Sunday on her release at the headquarters of the political party under whose banner she received a majority of the vote for prime minister of the country in 1990, the National League for Democracy.  She was detained and placed under house arrest before being allowed to assume that position.

She had been imprisoned for 15 of the past 21 years.

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