(Burmese pro-democracy leader) Aung San Suu Kyi to be 'freed' (on November 13) after polls

[Turborama]

Source: Al Jazeera English

Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy leader, is set to be released just days after Myanmar's upcoming election, government officials have said.

Suu Kyi, who has become the icon of Myanmar's pro-democracy movement and remains the military government's most well-known opponent, is to be released on November 13, reported the AFP news agency, citing two anonymous official sources.

Myanmar is to hold elections on November 7, but neither Suu Kyi nor her National League for Democracy party (NLD) will be taking part, having boycotted the vote over rules banning serving prisoners, including the Nobel peace laureate, from running.

Suu Kyi, who won the country's last poll overwhelmingly in 1990, has spent most of the last 20 years in detention in what is seen as a consequence of her popularity.

Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/10/201010162812434959.html