Burmese court accepts appeal against Suu Kyi's conviction
4 Sep 2009, 1451 Hrs

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Yangon (Myanmar), Sep 4 A Burmese Court has accepted the appeal filed by lawyers of detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi against her criminal conviction, and has scheduled the appeal for September 18.

Earlier, Suu Kyi's main lawyer, Kyi Win, had said that they submitted an appeal against the conviction to the Divisional Court in Yangon.

A Myanmar court had sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to a three years 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 Daily Express reports.

Meanwhile, 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. (ANI)

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