Suu Kyi won’t accept conditional release, says lawyer

BURMA’S democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will not accept conditions on her freedom if the military government releases her this week when her latest period of detention is due to end, her lawyer said.

Suu Kyi won’t accept conditional release, says lawyer

The charismatic and influential figurehead of Burma’s fight for democracy could still be a potent threat to the ruling military but it stands to gain diplomatically by freeing her.

Suu Kyi voiced opposition to the first election in 20 years, held last Sunday and easily won, as expected, by a party set up by the military. She has called on her loyalists to expose electoral fraud, her lawyer Nyan Win said.

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