Minister’s comment is attempt to influence court , Suu Kyi

By Agence France-Press

Detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said that Burma's Home Minister Major General Maung Oo's alleged comment on her release is an attempt to influence the court, according to a lwayer of hers.

Nyan Win, who was allowed to see her yesterday for two and a half hours at her lakeside home in Rangoon to discuss various matters with her, said that she finds the alleged comment of the minister inappropriate.

"Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said, if it is true that he said that, it is not fair. It is an unfair (biased) comment because the case that concerns him is still to be decided by the Supreme Court. The case is not over yet. This utterance before the court has made a decision implies an attempt to influence the court. It is inappropriate, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said."

Her response came after it was reported that Maung Oo told local officials at a meeting in upper Burma that the 64-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner is to be released from house arrest in November.

Aung San Suu Kyi was found guilty by a court in Rangoon of breaching conditions of her house arrest in August last year after US citizen John Yettaw swam to her house, uninvited. She was ordered to stay another 18 months in detention.

The Supreme Court recently heard her lawyers' final arguments against the extended house arrest.

Critics of the junta said that the trial was a deliberate ploy to keep her out of the political arena whilst polling is taking place this year.

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This is from DVB (Democratic Voice of Burma) by the author Agence France-Press.

My opinion:

I wish she would be released as soon as possible and lead the country, making every civilians get better living standards.