MYANMAR. SAN SUU KYI IS under house arrest. CAN NOT 'candidate in the forthcoming Presidential elections. APPEAL OF THE COUNCIL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS.
The Council for the Rights of 'Man Geneva, with a resolution adopted unanimously, calls for "immediate release and unconditionally "SAN SUU KYI and all political prisoners.
Meanwhile the Court of Appeals in Rangoon yesterday rejected the request of his lawyers and the main opposition leader remains under house arrest.
San Suu Kyi, leader of the National League for Democracy and Nobel Prize for Peace, may therefore not appear in the upcoming presidential election .
The sentence, handed down last August, remain in force.
The offense is accused. She hosted a stranger at his home. It is not allowed. It will serve 18 months of house arrest.
San Suu Kyi, now 64 years age classes, has already spent 13 years in prison .
His life became an ordeal from the moment when, in the last presidential election of 1990, having won, she was not allowed to hold the office of President of the Council. A military coup overturned the vote and took power.
followed a ' escalation of violence against her with surgical care.
In 2003 he even tried to remove it physically. While he was on board a train, surrounded by their supporters, a group of soldiers opened fire. Many were the victims. The leader of the National League for Democracy, however, managed to escape, but only thanks to the alertness of his driver.
Yesterday circulated the news of an official meeting between a minister of the military junta, the government spokesman and the same San Suu Kyi. The feeling is that the request from Geneva will remain unheard
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