JURIST (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
[JURIST] Myanmar's Supreme Court has agreed to consider an appeal by opposition pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi against the 18-month extension of her house arrest, officials said Friday. Suu Kyi's lawyers filed the appeal last month after a lower court rejected an earlier appeal. A judge will hold a preliminary hearing on December 21 to decide whether the appeal will be considered by the full...
CLARE STREET (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
In Singapore, President Barack Obama has urged the military junta in Myanmar to free the most symbolic opposition leader Ang San Suu Kyi who has lost her personal liberty for fourteen years in her own nation. Clare Street shares the opinion that Aung San Suu Kyi should be freed for Myanmar' s national reconciliation to be realised meaningfully and for Myanmar to regain its honour and respect in the...
JURIST (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
[JURIST] Opposition pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi filed an appeal in Myanmar's highest court on Friday challenging the 18-month extension of her house arrest. The head of Suu Kyi's legal team Kyi Win said that now that the appeal has been submitted to the High Court, they must wait to learn whether the court will agree to hear the case. Earlier this week, it was reported that a Senior Burmese...
The Observer (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Foreign ministry diplomat says jailed opposition leader will be allowed to organiser her party for next year's elections Burma's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, may soon be released so she can play a role in next year's election, a senior Burmese diplomat has said. "There is a plan to release her soon ... so she can organise her party," Min Lwin, a director-general in the foreign ministry,...
PACIFIST PEOPLE POWER (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said she expects more meetings to take place between her and the government liaison minister to discuss the lifting of sanctions, her lawyer said. Suu Kyi met with her lawyers on Friday at the end of a fortnight in which she held two separate meetings with junta liaison minister Aung Kyi and Western diplomats. It was the second time in a month that Suu Kyi...
PACIFIST PEOPLE POWER (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Burmese opposition party members who met with United States embassy staff yesterday were told that Washington will soon send its deputy secretary of state to the country, a party spokesperson said. It would mark the most high profile visit of a US politician to Burma in over a decade, and comes shortly after the Obama administration announced it would begin direct engagement with the military regime....
PalaungNLD (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
A court in Burma has rejected an appeal by Aung San Suu Kyi against her house arrest, with the opposition leader likely to remain in detention beyond the 2010 elections. Lawyers for Suu Kyi, who today confirmed the rejection, had argued that the law under which she was charged was no longer valid. “But there was a strange thing,” said lawyer Nyan Win. “The court agreed with a point...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
A court in Burma upheld its guilty verdict on the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday, a ruling likely to keep the Nobel laureate in detention until after next year's elections. The judge dismissed an appeal by Ms Suu Kyi's legal team, which argued that her 18-month house arrest for a security breach was unlawful because it was based on legislation no longer in use. Prior to the hearing,...
JURIST (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
[JURIST] A Myanmar court on Friday upheld a sentence of house arrest imposed on opposition pro-democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi. Suu Kyi was convicted in August of violating state security laws and sentenced to an additional 18 months of house arrest for allowing American John Yettaw to stay in her home after he swam across a lake to get there. Suu Kyi's lawyer and spokesperson for her National...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Opposition leader was sentenced to an additional 18 months after briefly sheltering an uninvited American at her home earlier this year A Burmese court today turned down Aung San Suu Kyi's appeal against her most recent house arrest sentence, her lawyer said. The opposition leader was convicted and sentenced in August for briefly sheltering an uninvited American at her home earlier this year. The...
KyiMayKaung (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
PLEASE LEAVE A MESSAGE for Sen. Webb on his web site -- http://webb.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm'id=318217& please send this around. At the bottom right hand corner of Sen. Webb's site (url above), you can leave a message for him -- here is a suggested sample. "Dear Sen. Webb, This is no time for you to be considering lifting US sanctions against Burma, while a US citizen Kyaw Zaw Lwin (Nyi...
JURIST (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
[JURIST] Myanmar authorities have denied a request from opposition pro-democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi to attend arguments on her appeal, her National League for Democracy (NLD) party told the Agence France-Presse Wednesday. NLD spokesperson and lawyer for Suu Kyi, Nyan Win, said an application to the police special information branch to be present for Friday's arguments was rejected. Government...
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Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Recent fighting in northern Burma sent over 35,000 refugees into China, prompting fears that the ruling junta is seeking a military solution to its recent demand that 17 ethnic militias based in Burma's borderlands merge with the state security forces before 2010 elections. Over the weekend of 28 August, the junta's army overran territory previously controlled by one of the militias, the Myanmar National...
JURIST (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
[JURIST] Lawyers for Myanmar opposition pro-democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi said Friday that the Divisional Court in Rangoon has agreed to hear an appeal of her recent conviction for violating state security laws. Suu Kyi was sentenced to an additional 18 months of house for allowing American John Yettaw to stay in her home after he swam across a lake to get there. Yettaw, who was sentenced to...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
Judges to rule over pro-democracy activist's fate after her lawyers filed petition against her detention A Burmese court today offered a glimmer of hope that the country's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, could be set free after it accepted an appeal by her lawyers. In a widely criticised decision, the Nobel peace laureate was given 18 months' house arrest on 11 August, after being found guilty...
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