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Aung San Suu Kyi convicted

18 more months in house arrest

Update 7th September
Aung San Suu Kyi trial, the appeal was granted. On 18th September the parties will present their own arguments.

Update 11th August
The three years sentence to forced labor was reduced by a half by the Minister of the Interiors and the imprisonment was turned into house arrest after the protests from all over the world.
Blatant is the goal to prevent the Peace Nobel Prize winner from participating into the elections summoned by the Burmese military junta for 2010.

18th May 2009
Aung San Suu Kyi under trial
Arrested and tried with closed doors Aung San Suu Kyi, aged 63, winner of the Sakharov Prize and of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1991.
She is accused of violating the house arrest which she has been subject to for thirteen years and bound to expire on 27th May, for greeting and feeding the American Mormon John William Yettaw who swam through a lake to reach yer into her house.
Now the icon of resistance against the Burmese generals' regime runs the risk of a new sentence to jail, to be served in extremely harsh conditions, which could doom her life.
David Steinberg of Georgetown University, a Burma expert, said to the NY Times: "She embodies the values of freedom and democracy in one person. Now with an excuse the Burmese authorities want to jail Suu Kyi, so that they can erase her free voice".


NY Times analysis

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