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Article: Myanmar sentences Suu Kyi to more house arrest
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- August 11, 2009
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A Myanmar court convicted Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday of violating her house arrest by allowing an uninvited American to stay at her home. The head of the military-ruled country ordered the democracy leader to serve an 18-month sentence under house arrest.
The 64-year-old opposition leader has already spent 14 of the last 20 years in detention, mostly under house arrest, and the extension will remove her from the political scene when the junta stages elections next year.
The ruling _ which also convicted the American, John Yettaw, and sentenced him to seven years with hard labor _ drew immediate criticism from world leaders, with British Prime Minister ...