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Myanmar's Suu Kyi gets 18-month house arrest

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-08-11 15:56

 

In this May 6, 2002 file photo, Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at the headquarters of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party in Yangon. [Agencies]

YANGON: Aung San Suu Kyi's sentence was commuted to 18 months house arrest by Chairman of the Myanmar State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) Senior-General Than Shwe after a district court sentenced her to three years in prison Tuesday for violating her terms of house arrest.

The one and a half years' term set Aung San Suu Kyi, General Secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD), to stay under house arrest.

According to Tuesday's verdict of the court, Aung San Suu Kyi's two female housemates, Khin Khin Win and Win Ma Ma, were each given three years' jail term. But their sentences were also commuted to one and a half years by the Myanmar SPDC chairman.

The terms set the two housemates to stay at home together with Aung San Suu Kyi, while the American citizen John William Yettaw was sentenced to three years in prison.