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Lawyers optimistic about Suu Kyi's release |
Lawyers of detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi
have said that they have
firm arguments in the appeal that they have filed against her criminal conviction.
"We are optimistic that Daw Suu and her two companions will be released because
we based our appeal on sound legal points," The Daily Express quoted Nyan Win,
Suu Kyi's lawyer, as saying. Earlier, Suu Kyi's lawyers had submitted an appeal
against the conviction to the Divisional Court in Yangon. A Myanmar court had
sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to a three year jail term with hard labour for violating
terms of her house arrest, when an American citizen John Yettaw swam to her lakeside
home in May and stayed there uninvited for two day when she was under dentention.
The sentence was later reduced to 18 months under house arrest, but it would still
keep her off the political stage and elections that the military government has
set for next year, the paper reports. The appeal filed by Suu Kyi's lawyers argues
that the law cited by authorities is invalid, as it applies to a constitution
abolished two decades ago. The American, Yettaw, was sentenced to seven years
in prison, but was released on humanitarian grounds and deported on August 16.
Suu Kyi, who sacrificed her prosperous days in England to take up the crusade
for democracy in her home country, Myanmar, and later imprisoned by the military
regime, has become the world''s most famous political prisoners, and an icon for
the struggle of democracy. Suu Kyi has been detained for more than 13 of the last
19 years. |
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