Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi will be released just days after Burma’s first election in two decades, officials said Thursday.

The Nobel Peace laureate, who has been detained for most of the last twenty years since winning the country’s last general election, will be freed when her current term of house arrest expires on 13 November, the unnamed sources said.

“November will be an important and busy month for us because of the election and because of Aung San Suu Kyi’s release,” a Myanmar official told AFP, noting the release would come soon after the country’s 7 November poll.