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MYANMAR/BURMA - COURT REJECTS SUU
KYI'S APPEAL TO END HOUSE ARREST
A security guard walks past a picture showing an image of imprisoned Aung San Suu Kyi displayed on the front gate of the British embassy in the Indonesian capital on February 22, 2010.
February
26, 2010
(CNN) -- Myanmar's Supreme Court rejected Friday an appeal by
pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to overturn her house arrest.
A diplomat who attended the hearing and
spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed that the appeal was unsuccessful.
Suu Kyi, 64, has one final avenue for
appeal to a special court in Myanmar's new capital, Naypidaw.
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate's house
arrest was extended by 18 months last August after an incident in which
uninvited American John Yettaw stayed at her lakeside home. Myanmar's ruling
military junta accused Suu Kyi of breaching the terms of her house arrest.
She has been imprisoned or under house
arrest for much of the past two decades, since her party the National League
for Democracy won a landslide election victory in 1990. The junta has never
recognized the results, but has promised to hold fresh elections this year,
although no date has yet been set.
Suu
Kyi is disqualified from standing because she was married to a
foreigner. The NLD has still to clarify whether it will participate in the
vote.
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