HC sets date for Suu Kyi appeal
Myanmar’s high court has set a date for a hearing on Aung San Suu
Kyi’s appeal against a ban on two witnesses in her trial on charges of
breaking her house arrest rules, the opposition leader’s party said
Saturday. The Supreme Court will hear the application on June 17 after
previously saying this would be postponed to a later date, said Nyan
Win, one of Aung San Suu Kyi’s lawyers and spokesman for her National
League for Democracy (NLD).
“The Supreme Court announced the date on the notice board
yesterday... We have to give our arguments for admission (of the appeal)
on that day,” he saidThe 63-year-old Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu
Kyi faces up to five years in jail if convicted on charges that she
allowed an uninvited American man to swim to hear lakeside home in
May.Her main trial, at a special court in Yangon’s notorious Insein
prison, has been adjourned until June 26.
-AFP
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