Burma's pro-democracy leader 'refuses freedom'

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 UN envoy has said.

"She wants to be the last person to have access to freedom of movement," Paulo Sergio Pinheiro said, on the last day of a week long mission investigating human rights in the country.

He met with Suu Kyi at her lakeside home for two hours on Thursday.

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate has been detained since a bloody clash in northern Burma on May 30 between her supporters and a pro-junta mob.

She was first held at an undisclosed location and then under house arrest at her Yangon residence.

Pinheiro said 35 people remain in jail in connection with the May 30 incident and 101 have been freed.

In addition, eight senior members of her National League for Democracy remain under house arrest, he said.

The UN envoy said Suu Kyi told him that "she will not accept any privilege or freedom of movement before all the people detained since May 30 including her eight colleagues (are) released".

The government said after the clash that Suu Kyi was being detained under an emergency security law.

But Pinheiro said he was told by authorities this week that she is "not held under any security law."

The government has not said this publicly.

It was not clear if that meant Suu Kyi was free to leave her home or whether she was being held under some other law. Pinheiro refused to clarify.

He also declined to give an account of Suu Kyi's health but said she was in good spirits.