Suu Kyi wants colleagues freed before her

Burma’s detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will not accept freedom until all those arrested with her five months ago are released, a United Nations human rights envoy said today.

Burma’s detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will not accept freedom until all those arrested with her five months ago are released, a United Nations human rights envoy said today.

“She wants to be the last person to have access to freedom of movement,” the envoy, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, said on the last day of a weeklong mission investigating human rights in the military-ruled country.

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