Outrage at Suu Kyi’s 18-month detention
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 labour — drew immediate criticism from world leaders, with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown calling it “monstrous.”
