Myanmar’s former democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi appears to be in good physical and mental health but is living in near-complete isolation, her son has said after the first call with his 81-year-old mother in more than five years.

“She still sounds certainly all there mentally, and physically she sounds strong,” Kim Aris said. “I don’t think she has anybody outside of the military or the police around her, so essentially she’s been held in solitary confinement from what I gather.”

After being deposed in a 2021 military coup , the Nobel Peace prize laureate has been moved to an unspecified location in the capital. “I’m still not entirely sure where she is,” said Aris. “I think it’s a residence in Naypyidaw, which is fenced off and it has a scrubby bit of land around it.”

Aung San Suu Kyi talks on the phone with her son on Thursday, in a photo released by the Myanmar presidential office.…