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2009-10-02
YANGON, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar's Yangon divisional court Friday rejected an appeal of Aung San Suu Kyi against her conviction by the district court that suspended her 18 months' imprisonment by confinement to house after the original three years' vigorous sentence was commuted half by the government, according to well-informed sources.
Aung San Suu Kyi, 64, General Secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD), was convicted for violating her terms of house arrest then by harboring an American, John William Yettaw, who sneaked into Aung San Suu Kyi's restricted residence for three days in early May by swimming across the Inya Lake in Yangon.
She was sentenced by a Yangon district court to three years' rigorous imprisonment on Aug. 11 but her terms were immediately commuted to 18 months which were suspended for carrying out by confinement to her residence according to an order of Than Shwe, chairman of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC).
Aug. 11's verdict also sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi's two female housemates, Khin Khin Win and Win Ma Ma, to three years' prison terms each but was also similarly reduced half by the Myanmar SPDC chairman and allowed to stay together with Aung San Suu Kyi.
The court verdict further sentenced the American citizen, John William Yettaw, to seven years of jail terms but was released and deported on Aug. 16 on humanitarian ground as requested by visiting Democratic Senator of the United States Jim Webb, who is also chairman of the East Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Source: Xinhua News
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