Detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is innocent of charges levelled against her by Burma’s ruling military, her lawyer said today, as she prepared for the start of her trial tomorrow.

A COURT in Burma sentenced 14 members of a well-known pro-democracy group to 65 years’ imprisonment each yesterday, relatives said.

Burma’s military junta released at least 19 political prisoners, including pro-democracy party members, as part of a group of nearly 4,000 inmates it said were wrongly charged by an intelligence agency.