Myanmar junta releases rare photos of Aung San Suu Kyi receiving gardening books and a sealed letter from King Charles

Aung San Suu Kyi's son says the regime is trying to 'create an illusion of normality' with the pictures. Critics call the release a stunt by coup leader Min Aung Hlaing to break Myanmar's diplomatic isolation. Home ministry officials handed the 81-year-old two books on soil in a 10-minute meeting in Naypyitaw.

Charles met Suu Kyi in London in 2017, when he was Prince of Wales.

She is serving an 18-year term under house arrest on charges she calls 'absurd'.

Since the 2021 coup, not one foreign leader or envoy has been publicly recorded meeting her.