Junta Said to Extend Suu Kyi’s House Arrest
Myanmar’s military junta has extended opposition leader and Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s house arrest for a year, a Home Ministry source told Reuters news agency.
Officials visited Suu Kyi in her Yangon home to inform her of the action, which came exactly one year after she received a similar 12-month extension of her detention, the source added.
U Lwin, a spokesman for Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy, which won a landslide election victory in 1990 only to be denied power by the army, said they had been kept in the dark about any possible extension but said such a move was expected.
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