Former Nobel peace prize laureate Auan San Suu Kyi has had the Freedom of Edinburgh revoked amid the Rohingya crisis.

City councillors agreed unanimously to strip the Myanmar leader of the honour following claims she has ignored violence against Rohingya Muslims in the Buddhist-majority country she represents.

The UN has described the Myanmar military's actions in Rakhine state as "textbook ethnic cleansing".

More than 700,000 Muslim-majority Rohingya have fled the region to neighbouring Bangladesh due to widespread persecution.

Ms Suu Kui has refused to condemn the alleged brutality of government troops, however, sparking worldwide outcry.

She was given the Freedom of Edinburgh in 2005, for her support of democracy while under house arrest.

Today she was stripped of it with immediate effect after a unanimous vote by all Edinburgh councillors after a motion was lodged by Lord Provost Frank Ross.

He said: "It has been ten months since this chamber discussed the status of this award for Aung San Suu Kyi.

"It did so in the light of the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar (Burma), which was and continues to be broadcast around the world.

"At that time this chamber instructed me to write to Aung San Suu Kyi, making it very clear that as a recipient of the Freedom of our City, we urged her to use her powers to alleviate this human crisis."

Mr Ross added: "I did so and we have tried every route that we possibly have available to us to make contact, via our armed forces, through diplomatic means, by writing directly - yet we have seen the situation in Myanmar continue to deteriorate.

"This award is granted rarely and only to those individuals who are held in the highest esteem by the citizens of Edinburgh. It was presented to Aung San Suu Kyi in recognition of her personal courage and relentless pursuit of justice.

"I no longer believe her receipt of this award or the reasons it was presented are appropriate or accurate. It is not a decision we take lightly to revoke the honour granted to her in 2005."

Edinburgh follows Dublin, Newcastle and Oxford in revoking an honour from Ms Suu Kyi.

It's the first time that Edinburgh has stripped a Freedom of the City honour since 1890. Irish politician Charles Parnell lost his amid a love affair scandal.