WASHINGTON, May 11 (Xinhua) -- The Obama administration voiced its concerns on Monday over the health situation of Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, urging her immediate release out of the house arrest.
The administration "is concerned about reports that Aung San Suu Kyi needs medical care and that Burmese authorities have detained her primary personal physician," said State Department Spokesman Ian Kelly in a statement.
The administration urges Myanmar's government to allow Suu Kyi to "receive immediate medical care" from her personal physician and to "meet with her personal attorney immediately," according to the spokesman.
A spokesman for the opposition leader said Saturday that she has been suffering from low blood pressure and dehydration.
"We are reminded that the house arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi is unjust," said Kelly, adding "We joins the calls of the international community and urge her immediate release."
Aung San Suu Kyi, 64, general secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD), was put under detention and later house arrest at her lake-side residence in Yangon for the third time since the Dabay in bloody incident in northwestern Sagaing division on May 30, 2003.
Source: Xinhua
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