Court to listen to Suu Kyi's appeal

Burma’s highest court accepted a special appeal to free detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest less than a month before she is due to be released.

Her lawyer Nyan Win said today: “We believe that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will be released on November 13 but we are pursuing this legal battle to prove her innocence.”

He said the High Court posted an announcement last night that it would hear the special appeal on behalf of Ms Suu Kyi, who has spent most of the past 15 years under house arrest.

Nyan Win said lawyers will have to present their argument before the Special Appellate Bench, a multi-judge panel in the remote administrative capital of Naypyitaw.

This will be Ms Suu Kyi’s last legal option to appeal against her conviction.