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Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi 'guilty' | |
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Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to an additional 18 months house arrest by a court in Rangoon. | Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to an additional 18 months house arrest by a court in Rangoon. |
Ms Suu Kyi, a Nobel peace laureate, was convicted of breaking the terms of her house arrest by allowing a US man into her lakeside home in May. | Ms Suu Kyi, a Nobel peace laureate, was convicted of breaking the terms of her house arrest by allowing a US man into her lakeside home in May. |
She was jailed for three years with hard labour, but this was commuted to house arrest, an official said. | She was jailed for three years with hard labour, but this was commuted to house arrest, an official said. |
The American national, John Yettaw, is also on trial. | The American national, John Yettaw, is also on trial. |
Ms Suu Kyi had denied the charge but said she expected to be convicted. | |
Journalists had unexpectedly been allowed to enter the courtroom in Rangoon's Insein prison shortly before the sentence was announced. | |
Following the reading of Ms Suu Kyi's sentence there was a five-minute recess before the country's home minister entered the courtroom and read out a special order from Burma's military ruler Than Shwe. | |
The order said he was commuting the sentence and that it could be served under house arrest. |