PARIS: The son of Myanmar`s deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday demanded France`s help in seel(ing independently verified proof of his mother`s life after she was transferred to house arrest, her lawyers said.

The country`s junta chief-turned-president Min Aung Hlaing on Thursday ordered the 80-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner to be moved, five years after putting herinto detention in a coup. But her son, Kim Aris, says he has still not heard from his mother, who remains massively popular inside Myanmar.

`I implore France to joinmy call so that we may obtain independently verified proof of life, and so that her fundamental rights are guaranteed: appropriate medical care, access to her lawyers and to her family,` he wrote in a letter addressed to French President Emmanuel Macron.

Suu Kyi`s lawyer, Francois Zimeray, said that Aris handed the letter to France`s Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot at a meeting on Tuesday. `We have had no proof of life, no photos for years, not even any indication that she was actually transferred. We still don`t know where she is,` he said.-AFP