Nobel Peace Prize recipient and leader of the National League for Democracy in Burma, Suu Kyi is a noted prisoner of conscience and advocate of nonviolent resistance, having been imprisoned under house arrest for the majority of the last two decades. She was released from house arrest in November of 2010.
She is an honorary board member of International IDEA and ARTICLE 19, and is the official patron of The Rafto Human Rights House in Bergen, Norway.
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