Myanmar junta allows doctor to see ailing Suu Kyi

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Source: Washington Post

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's junta allowed a doctor to visit detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday after barring access to the ailing Nobel Peace laureate over the weekend, a spokesman for her party said.

Nyan Win of the National League for Democracy (NLD) said he had no update on Suu Kyi's condition after she was diagnosed with low blood pressure and dehydration on Friday and put on an intravenous drip.

Rights groups have accused the regime of denying the 63-year-old Suu Kyi adequate medical care after her personal doctor, Tin Myo Win, was detained for questioning last week.

His assistant, Pyone Mo Ei, was barred this weekend from visiting Suu Kyi's lakeside home in Yangon where the NLD leader has spent most of the past six years under house arrest.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/11/AR2009051100968.html

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1. Dissident Faces Trial in Myanmar

By THOMAS FULLER and SETH MYDANS
Published: May 13, 2009

BANGKOK — The Nobel Peace Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was taken to prison by Myanmar security officials on Thursday morning and was scheduled to stand trial later in the day for allowing an American man to stay overnight in her home, an apparent violation of her long-term house arrest, her lawyer said.

The American, identified as John William Yettaw, of Falcon, Mo., swam across a lake in central Yangon last week and sneaked into Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi’s heavily guarded residential compound. She pleaded with him to leave, her lawyer said in an interview on Thursday, but he complained of cramping and she allowed him to stay ...

The incident could give the authoritarian military junta a convenient reason to extend her house arrest, which by some calculations is to end on May 27. A statutory five-year limit on her house arrest was extended last year for another year and the government was facing a deadline and the question of her legal status ...

If convicted, she could be sentenced to three to five years in prison ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/world/asia/14burma.html?_r=1&ref=world