Burma frees US man at centre of Suu Kyi trial

An American whose unauthorised visit to Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi led to her extended detention, has been released, the office of US Senator Jim Webb said today.

The statement from Washington said Webb, who was on a two-day visit to Burma, secured the release of John Yettaw, who was sentenced on Tuesday to seven years’ imprisonment for swimming secretly to Suu Kyi’s lakeside residence.