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Here are some facts about Suu Kyi, who went from being an housewife in England to a Nobel peace prize laureate incarcerated for 15 of the last 21 years because of her fight for democracy in the former Burma.
(CNN) -- Myanmar activist Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest Saturday, police and witnesses said. Witnesses told CNN that they had seen Suu Kyi as thousands of supporters gathered near her home in Yangon. Her lawyer Nyan Win went into her house, witnesses said. At party headquarters in the same city, hundreds waited near her National League for Democracy.
Here are some facts about Suu Kyi, who went from being an housewife in England to a Nobel peace prize laureate incarcerated for 15 of the last 21 years because of her fight for democracy in the former Burma.