Burma's Suu Kyi Is Sentenced to Another 18 Months ; Still a Prisoner World Leaders Condemn 'Sham' Trial of Democracy Campaigner [Edition 2]

Evening Standard - London › August 11, 2009

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WORLD leaders today condemned the sentencing of the Burmese pro- democracy leader to an additional 18 months house arrest as "brutal and unjust".

Aung San Suu Kyi, 64, was convicted of breaking the terms of her house arrest by allowing an American into her lakeside home in May.

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Burma's Suu Kyi Is Sentenced to Another 18 Months ; Still a Prisoner World Leaders Condemn 'Sham' Trial of Democracy Campaigner [Edition 2]

The Nobel peace laureate was originally told she would serve three years in jail after the hearing at Rangoon's Insein prison but this was immediately reduced to a y...

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