Suu Kyi is currently imprisoned in a compound in the capital Naypyidaw, close to the court where her trial is underway, and has been denied her domestic staff and pet dog Taechido.
“I seriously doubt the junta will release him from prison, at least until the 2023 elections are over,” said Hwe Hwet Thein, an associate professor at Curtin University in Australia.
Horsey said it was also “unlikely” the general would allow him to return to his family’s colonial-era lakeside mansion in Yangon, where he spent nearly 15 years under house arrest after winning election in 1990.
During that time she regularly gave speeches to crowds on the other side of her garden wall, becoming a global democracy icon for peaceful resistance to authoritarian military rule.