AP reports that the trial of Myanmar’s opposition leader and political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi was delayed for a week over efforts to reinstate three defense witnesses. Aung San Suu Kyi is on trial for allegedly violating conditions of her house arrest.
The rejected witnesses were all members of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party, including prominent journalist and former political prisoner Win Tin, the party’s vice chairman Tin Oo, currently under house arrest, and lawyer Khin Moe Moe.
Suu Kyi was detained last month after American John W. Yettaw swam to her lakeside home without her consent and stayed for two days. Both Yettaw and Aung San Suu Kyi could face up to five years in jail.
Aung San Suu Kyi, 63, has already been held in detention for 13 of the past 19 years.