The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced that one of its representatives visited detained State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar, in accordance with standard procedures for visiting people deprived of their liberty.
Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with a representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross, a rare contact amid overseas concern over her welfare.
The Myanmar military junta released some prisoners in an amnesty on a religious holiday, and official media broadcasted footage of Aung San Suu Kyi being transferred to house arrest, prompting the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to subsequently refer to her as an old friend.