Riot police ring Suu Kyi's prison as trial looms

Riot police behind barbed wire barricades ringed a notorious prison where pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was due to go on trial today for allegedly harbouring an American man who swam to her lakeside home.

The tight security came as activist groups, which spearheaded an uprising against Burma’s military rulers in 2007, called for peaceful protest rallies in front of Rangoon’s Insein prison until Ms Suu Kyi was freed.