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Suu Kyi House Arrest In Myanmar Extended By 18 Months
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| Protestors demonstrate outside the Myanmar Embassy in London, Tuesday Aug. 11, 2009, to protest against the 18-month house arrest verdict against Aung San Suu Kyi, head of Myanmar's National League for Democracy. Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's 64-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate has already been in detention for 14 of the last 20 years. (AP Photo/Sang Tan) |
By Ed Johnson, Bloomberg
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s house arrest was extended by 18 months after she was found guilty of breaching a detention order, triggering international condemnation of the military regime.
A court in the former capital, Yangon, gave her three years in jail and hard labor, a sentence the junta immediately commuted, Jared Genser, her U.S.-based attorney said after today’s verdict. A U.S. citizen who swam to her lakeside home, sparking the case, was given seven years’ hard labor, he added.
The U.S., the European Union, Australia, France and the U.K. condemned the verdict and called for the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s release.
A court in the former capital, Yangon, gave her three years in jail and hard labor, a sentence the junta immediately commuted, Jared Genser, her U.S.-based attorney said after today’s verdict. A U.S. citizen who swam to her lakeside home, sparking the case, was given seven years’ hard labor, he added.
The U.S., the European Union, Australia, France and the U.K. condemned the verdict and called for the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s release.
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