Suu Kyi's Detention Extended by a Year

[Englander]

Monday November 29, 2004 12:16 PM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4642543,00.html

YANGON, Myanmar (Burma)(AP) - Detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been told she will be held under house arrest for another year, a spokesman for her National League for Democracy party said Monday.

NLD spokesman U Lwin said the party confirmed over the weekend that Suu Kyi had been told her detention would be extended.

He did not give further details of the order or how he learned of it. Suu Kyi's telephone has been disconnected, and party leaders have not been allowed to visit her since May.

Suu Kyi was taken into custody in May last year while traveling in northern Myanmar after her motorcade was attacked by a pro-junta mob. She was held first by the military, then transferred to house arrest in September last year after undergoing an operation at a hospital in Yangon.

[meganmonkey]

1. This woman knows what it means to fight for democracy n/t

[struggle4progress]

2. kick

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