Aung San Suu Kyi: a life in pictures

1947: Family portrait of two-year-old Aung San Suu Kyi (centre) pictured with her parents and two elder brothers Photograph: AP

1988: Masses of demonstrators gather to listen to Aung San Suu Kyi, speaking in Rangoon Photograph: AP

1988: Burmese Opposition Leaders (left to right) U Nu, Aung San Suu Kyi and General Tin Oo Photograph: Sandro Tucci/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

1989: Aung San Suu Kyi gestures while addressing people at a rally in Rangoon recently in which she criticised the country's millitary rulers Photograph: AP

1989: Aung San Suu Kyi, Rangoon Photograph: John Eggitt/Corbis

1989: Aung San Suu Kyi, wearing a bamboo hat, the election symbol of the opposition National League for Democracy in Rangoon Photograph: AP

1989: Aung San Suu Kyi at a riverbank, north of Rangoon Photograph: Sandro Tucci/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image

1991: Aung San Suu Kyi's husband Michael Aris and sons Alexander and Kim collecting the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features

1995: Aung San Suu Kyi looks at wreaths laid during the Martyr's Day ceremony, marking the day in 1947 Aung San Suu Kyi's father, General Aung San, and several other independence leaders were assassinated Photograph: Anat Givon/AP

1995: Aung San Suu Kyi is surrounded by reporters at her home on the first day of her release from house arrest Photograph: Stuart Isett/AP

1996: Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech with leaders of the National League for Democracy (NLD) as people gather outside her home in Rangoon Photograph: Stuart Isett/AP

1996: Aung San Suu Kyi sits at the window of her home in Rangoon Photograph: Richard Vogel/AP

1996: Aung San Suu Kyi sits infront of a portrait of her father, General Aung San, founder of the Burmese independence movement at her home in Rangoon Photograph: Richard Vogel/AP

1997: Aung San Suu Kyi addresses supporters at her Rangoon residential compound to mark the 49th anniversary of Burmese independence Photograph: David Van Der Veen/AFP/Getty Images

2002: Aung San Suu Kyi giving a press conference after being freed from 19 months under house arrest, at her party's headquarters in Rangoon Photograph: Stephen Shaver/AFP/Getty Images

2002: Pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is mobbed by supporters as she arrives at the headquarters of her National League for Democracy (NLD) in Rangoon Photograph: Sukree Sukplang/Reuters

2003: Aung San Suu Kyi Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

2008: Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi meeting with the Junta's appointed Labour Minister, Aung Kyi, in Rangoon Photograph: AFP/AFP/Getty Images

2009: Burma activist holding a portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi during a protest at the Chinese embassy in Bangkok Photograph: Pornchai Kittiwongsakul/AFP/Getty Images

2009: Aung San Suu Kyi smiling following a meeting with US assistant secretary of state for east Asian and Pacific affairs, Kurt Campbell, at a hotel in Rangoon Photograph: Hla Hla Htay/AFP/Getty Images

2010: Aung San Suu Kyi meets the US assistant secretary of state, Kurt Campbell (right), and US embassy charge d'affaires Larry Dinger in Rangoon Photograph: Reuters

2010: Burmese activists light candles in front of a portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi during an event to celebrate her 65th birthday, in Bucheon, South Korea Photograph: Ahn Young-joon/AP

2010: The home of Aung San Suu Kyi, the house she was held under house arrest, is seen on the banks of Inya Lake near Rangoon Photograph: Reuters

13 November 2010: Aung San Suu Kyi greets supporters outside her house after being released from house arrest Photograph: AP

13 November 2010: Aung San Suu Kyi waves to her supporters Photograph: AP

14 November 2010: Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at the National League Democracy headquarters in Rangoon Photograph: Getty Images