page_title: Prisoner of conscience
section_title: Myanmar
hierarchical_section_title: Prisoner of conscience / Current Amnesty International prisoners of conscience / Myanmar
caption_attribution_description: English: Aung San Suu Kyi meets with crowd after house arrest lift on 14 November 2010.
context_page_description: Prisoner of conscience is a term coined by Peter Benenson in a 28 May 1961 article for the London Observer newspaper. Most often associated with the human rights organisation Amnesty International, the term can refer to anyone imprisoned because of their race, sexual orientation, religion, or political views. It also refers to those who have been imprisoned and/or persecuted for the non-violent expression of their conscientiously held beliefs.
context_section_description: Phyo Phyo Aung
caption: Aung San Suu Kyi was an Amnesty International-recognized prisoner of conscience from 1989 to 1995, from 2000 to 2002, and from 2003 to 2010.[66]
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