After more than a year under house arrest ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been transferred to solitary confinement in prison, the latest blow struck by the military against the country's democracy figurehead.
The Nobel laureate, 77, has been held since a coup ousted her government on 1 February last year, ending a brief democratic interlude for the country and sparking huge protests.
Months before, her National League for Democracy (NLD) swept nationwide elections and she had been preparing to begin another five-year term as the nation's de facto leader.
The daughter of an independence hero, Suu Kyi spent nearly two decades enduring long stretches of house arrest under a former military regime.
On Thursday, junta spokesperson Zaw Min Tun said Suu Kyi had been moved from house arrest in the military-built capital Naypyidaw to "solitary confinement in prison".
A junta court has already convicted her of corruption, incitement against the military, breaching COVID-19 rules and breaking a telecommunications law and sentenced her to 11 years in jail.
She is still battling a slew of other charges, including a new trial for allegedly influencing electoral officials during the 2020 polls.
While Suu Kyi remains immensely popular in Myanmar, her legacy abroad was deeply tarnished by her government's handling of the Rohingya crisis.
There was global revulsion at a 2017 army crackdown that saw roughly 750,000 members of the stateless Rohingya minority flee burning villages to neighbouring Bangladesh.
And for many fighting for democracy in Myanmar, the revolution must now go further than the movement Suu Kyi led decades ago and permanently root out military dominance of the country's politics and economy.
Daughter Of A Hero
Suu Kyi was born on 19 June, 1945, in Japanese-occupied Yangon during the final weeks of World War II.
Her father, Aung San, fought for and against both the British and the Japanese colonisers as he jostled to give his country the best shot at independence, achieved in 1948.
Suu Kyi spent most of her early years outside Myanmar – first in India, where her mother was an ambassador, and later at Oxford University, where she met her British husband.
After General Ne Win seized full power in 1962, he forced his brand of socialism on Myanmar, turning what was once Asia's rice bowl into one of the world's poorest and most isolated countries.
Suu Kyi's elevation to a democracy champion happened almost by accident when she returned home in 1988 to nurse her dying mother.
Soon afterwards, at least 3,000 people were killed when the military crushed protests against its authoritarian rule.
The bloodshed was the catalyst for Suu Kyi.
A charismatic orator, the then-43-year-old found herself in a leading role of a burgeoning democracy movement, delivering speeches to huge crowds as she led the NLD to a landslide 1990 election victory.
The generals were not prepared to give up power, and ignoring the result they confined Suu Kyi to her Yangon home, where she lived for around 15 of the next 20 years.
She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize while detained in 1991.
The junta offered to end her imprisonment at any time if she left the country permanently, but Suu Kyi refused.
That decision meant not seeing her husband before his death from cancer in 1999 and missing her two sons growing up.
Troubled Relationship
The military eventually granted her freedom in 2010, just days after elections that her party boycotted but which brought in a nominally civilian government.
She swept the next poll five years later, prompting jubilant celebrations by massive crowds, and increased her party's majority in 2020.
But Suu Kyi's administration was beset with trouble and marked by an uneasy relationship with the military, which maintained a powerful political role.
The government and the military appeared in lockstep after the 2017 Rohingya crackdown, however.
Her office denied claims that fleeing refugees had suffered rape, extrajudicial killings and arson attacks on their homes by Myanmar troops.
Suu Kyi defended the army's conduct and even travelled to The Hague in 2019 to rebut charges of genocide at the United Nations’ (UN) top court.
Months later she was the military's prisoner again, facing the possibility of spending the rest of her life in detention.