Amnesty International is stripping Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi of its highest honour.
The politician and Nobel peace prize winner received the honour in 2009, when she was living under house arrest.
The rights group said it was profoundly dismayed at her failure to speak out for the Rohingya minority, some 700,000 of whom have fled a military crackdown.
This is the latest honour in a string of awards the 73-year-old has lost.
Suu Kyi came to power as the de facto head of Buddhist‑majority Myanmar's civilian administration in 2016.
She has since faced international pressure, including from Amnesty International, to condemn the army's alleged brutality against the Rohingya. However she has refused to do so.
She has also defended the jailing of two Reuters journalists investigating the killing of Rohingya Muslims.
[Source: BBC]
