Suu Kyi 'preparing for the worst'

Burma’s detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was bracing for the worst ahead of tomorrow’s verdict in her high-profile trial, gathering medicine and books to prepare for a feared prison term, her lawyer said.

The frail 64-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner was “physically and mentally fine, and very alert”, Nyan Win, one of her lawyers, said today.