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Suu Kyi lawyers submit appeal bid | |
(about 6 hours later) | |
Lawyers representing Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi have presented their case for an appeal against her extended detention. | |
Lawyers for Ms Suu Kyi said the session at the High Court lasted less than two hours and that the court would rule later on Monday. | |
Her house arrest was extended in August after a US man swam uninvited to her lakeside home in Rangoon. | |
She has spent 14 of the past 20 years under house arrest. | She has spent 14 of the past 20 years under house arrest. |
Ms Suu Kyi's lawyers argued that her conviction was unsound because it was based on provisions laid out in a now defunct constitution. | |
The prosecution is also reported to have filed an appeal, arguing that the original sentence against the pro-democracy leader was too lenient. | |
If Aung San Suu Kyi's request for an appeal is again unsuccessful she still has one option open to her - a direct appeal to the leader of the military government for a pardon. | If Aung San Suu Kyi's request for an appeal is again unsuccessful she still has one option open to her - a direct appeal to the leader of the military government for a pardon. |
It is thought unlikely she would go that far, says the BBC's South East Asia correspondent Rachel Harvey. |