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Aung San Suu Kyi appeals detention to junta leadership

Detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has appealed to the ruling junta against her detention, her party’s spokesman said yesterday.

The appeal was sent by the National League for Democracy (NLD) party to military leaders in the administrative capital Naypyidaw in an attempt to secure her release from house arrest at her lakeside home in Yangon.

“One of her lawyers U Hla Myo Myint sent her appeal to the Cabinet in Naypyidaw on Thursday. They accepted it and signed the receipt,” said Nyan Win, an NLD spokesman.

“We can say that the way is open for her appeal for her release. It’s still too early to say how things will develop,” he said, adding that he believed an appeal hearing date may soon be set.

Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi approved the final draft of her legal appeal during a meeting with her lawyer Kyi Win last month.

She has been confined to her home for most of the past 19 years.

The 63-year-old rarely meets with anyone except her lawyer and doctor and in August refused a visit from UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari, apparently in protest at the lack of progress he was making on reform in Myanmar.

On Sept. 14 she was given an intravenous drip for malnourishment by her doctor Tin Myo Win after refusing food deliveries for a month.
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