Kuala Lampur, April 18 --  

YANGON, April 18 - Myanmar's former president Win Myint, detained since a 2021 military coup, was freed yesterday under a mass amnesty that also reduced the sentence of Aung San Suu Kyi, according to a source close to the pro-democracy leader.

Win Myint and Suu Kyi, the 80-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate, led Myanmar during a decade-long experiment with civilian rule that was abruptly halted by the coup.

The former president, who served from 2018, was pardoned of convictions handed down during the post-putsch period of military rule and released on Friday, a spokesman for his party told AFP.

Suu Kyi meanwhile remains detained, serving a sentence rights groups decry as a politically motivated m...