The pardons would mean a reduction of his six-year prison sentence, junta spokesman Zaw Min Tun told Eleven Media Group.
The Nobel laureate, who last week went from prison to house arrest in the capital, Naypyitaw, has been in custody since the military seized power in a coup in early 2021.
The State Board of the Army has also pardoned former President Win Myint, who was also arrested along with Suu Kyi after the 2021 coup, for some of the charges on which he was found guilty, resulting in a four-year reduction in his prison sentence, the junta spokesman said.
Suu Kyi, 78, has denied all the charges she was convicted of, ranging from incitement and voter fraud to corruption, and is appealing against them.
A knowledgeable source said Suu Kyi and Win Myint will remain in custody.
“She will not be released from house arrest,” said the source, who declined to be identified due to the sensitivity of the issue.
Suu Kyi, the daughter of Myanmar’s independence hero, was first placed under house arrest in 1989 after huge protests against decades of military rule.
In 1991, she won the Nobel Peace Prize for campaigning for democracy, but was not fully released from house arrest until 2010. She won the 2015 elections, held as part of attempts at military reforms, and his party won the next elections in November 2020.
But the military complained of voter fraud after the 2020 vote and said it needed to take power in early 2021 to ensure the complaints were investigated. Suu Kyi’s party has dismissed accusations of voter fraud.
Many governments, especially in the West, have called for the unconditional release of Suu Kyi and thousands of others detained in a bloody crackdown the junta has unleashed on pro-democracy protests following the coup of state.
A diplomatic source described the pardons as a “cosmetic move”.
“It’s a signal to the international community – without doing anything substantial,” said the source, who declined to be identified.
