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Wretched American’ May Ruin Hopes for House Arrest Release of …

Women on the Web –

 

By The Staff at wowOwow.com Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, may have to spend even more time under house …

Western outcry over Suu Kyi case

 

BBC News –

Western governments have condemned the “disturbing” new charges brought against Burma’s pro-democracy opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. …

Aung San Suu Kyi Charged With Violating House Arrest

Voice of America -

By Daniel Schearf Lawyers for detained Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi says she is being charged with violating the terms of her house arrest and …

Myanmar military charges Suu Kyi

 

MWC News -

Zin Linn, the director of the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma, a pro-democracy group that supports Aung San Suu Kyi, said there was an …

SUU KYI RETURNS TO PRISON, TRIAL ON MONDAY

Agenzia Giornalistica Italia –

(AGI) – Rangoon, 14 May – Burmese authorities have transferred the leader of the opposition Aung San Suu Kyi to prison, charged with the violation of the …

Myanmar opposition leader to go on trial again

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… 13 of the last 19 years — including the past six — in detention without trial for her nonviolent promotion of democracy in Myanmar, also called Burma. …

 

Myanmar Activist In Trouble Over Bizzare Incident Involving American

MyStateline.com –

 

(Yangon, Myanmar) — The iron-fisted government of Myanmar is coming down hard on pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi following a bizarre incident …

 

Democracy Activist Arrested In Myanmar For Violating House Arrest

ChattahBox –

 

Suu Kyi, the 63-year-old activist and politician has been battling for a democratic Myanmar since it was called by it’s former name, Burma. …

 

‘The Lady’ still threatens ruling junta

Manila Times -

 

“She is the icon who gives inspiration to the people of Burma,” he said, referring to Myanmar by its former name. The daughter of Myanmar’s founding father …

 

Gordon Brown condemns junta for charging Suu Kyi

Mizzima.com - 

 

by Mungpi New Delhi (Mizzima) – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Thursday said he is “deeply concerned” that Burma’s detained pro-democracy leader …

Burma (Myanmar): UN security council should demand Aung San Suu …

Amnesty International UK -

These states are best placed to bring the necessary pressure to bear on the Myanmar government, said Amnesty. ‘The government of Myanmar must free Daw Aung …

 

CHRONOLOGY: Aung San Suu Kyi – Myanmar’s symbol of democracy

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May 10, 2008: While hundreds of thousands of victims of cyclone Nargis fight for their survival, the junta holds the controversial referendum, which results…

Burma’s junta still fears Suu Kyi

guardian.co.uk - 

But the junta’s continuing, egregious human rights abuses, its neglect of people displaced by last year’s Cyclone Nargis, its sanctioning of narcotics and …

Suu Kyi Faces Jail After Uninvited Guest

TIME - 

(See pictures of Burma after Cyclone Nargis.) After several days of stone-walling by the Burmese regime, an American diplomat was allowed to meet with the …

UK ‘deeply disturbed’ at new Suu Kyi charge

Independent Online -

London – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Thursday he is “deeply disturbed” that Myanmar’s pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi faces a charge of …

Burma’s Suu Kyi taken to prison

BBC News - 

The Burmese pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been arrested and transferred to Rangoon’s Insein Prison. Her arrest follows an incident in which an …

 

Junta charges Suu Kyi, US national

Radio France Internationale –

 

Myanmar’s military government says it will put pro-democracy leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi to trial on 18 May, over an incident in which a US citizen swam …

 

Suu Kyi Faces Charge, Says Spokesman

OfficialWire -

 

Authorities in Myanmar, formerly called Burma, arrested the American, John William Yeattaw, 54, last week, Kyodo said. CNN reported a US Embassy official in …

 

Burma: Leader of Pro-Democracy Campaigner to be Charged

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Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, will be taken to Insein Rangoon Prison, along with two other women within the lodgings, due to Mr John Yettaw …

Burmese Democracy Advocate Faces Military Trial

New York Times –

… election,” said Soe Aung, who represents the Bangkok-based Forum for Democracy in Burma, a coalition of exile groups from Myanmar, formerly Burma. …

Myanmar: Brute Force Vs A Brave Burmese Lady

The Moderate Voice -

By SWARAAJ CHAUHAN, International Columnist An ailing 63-year-old Nobel laureate, who happens to be the most popular leader of Myanmar (Burma), …

 

Suu Kyi Charged in Myanmar With Breaching Detention

Bloomberg -

 

The country formerly known as Burma, one of Southeast Asia’s richest countries in the early 1960s and now its poorest, has languished under military rule …

 

Aung San Suu Kyi faces five years in jail after ‘uninvited visit …

Telegraph.co.uk –

 

Burma’s opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, faces a five-year prison sentence after the military regime accused her of breaking the terms of her house …

West condemns Suu Kyi charges

Straits Times –

LONDON – WESTERN governments lined up to condemn ‘disturbing’ new charges brought against Myanmar’s pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday, …

 

Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (File)

Voice of America - ?

 

Burmese authorities took Aung San Suu Kyi to court, Thursday morning, along with two of her maids. One of her lawyers, Kyi Win, told VOA she was charged …

 

Burma opposition leader Suu Kyi faces trial after visit by …

Christian Science Monitor –

 

A court in military-ruled Burma (Myanmar) has ordered detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to stand trial after an American man – reportedly a …

 

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi charged over US intruder

Wapakoneta Daily News –

 

Myanmar’s military junta has charged pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi with breaching the terms of her house arrest over an incident in which an American …

Charges against Suu Kyi ‘troubling:’ US

Sydney Morning Herald -

The US State Department expressed concern after Burma’s military junta detained and charged pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi with breaching the terms of …

Charges follow the arrest of an American who swam across a lake to …

First Post –

By Jack Bremer A wave of international outrage can be expected today following the news from Burma that the pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been …

Detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to stand trial …

Daily Mail –

By Mail Foreign Service Detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be put on trial today in connection with the intrusion of an American who …

Burmese leader Suu Kyi ”to be charged” over American’s visit

South Asian Observer -

London, May 14 (ANI): Burmese authorities are to charge the pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and her two maids over an incident in which an American …

Burma’s Suu Kyi Faces Further Detention

Sky News -

Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been formally charged for breaking her house arrest after receiving an “uninvited visit” from a US citizen. …

Dissident to Face Trial in Myanmar

New York Times –

Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi, 63, who won the 1991 Nobel Prize for her pro-democracy work in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, has been under house arrest for six …

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