Myanmar’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by Aung San Suu Kyi against her extended house arrest, the Daily Telegraph reported on Saturday Feb 27.
The ruling will keep the pro-democracy leader in detention ahead of elections promised for later this year.
The 64-year-old opposition leader had her incarceration lengthened by 18 months in August after being convicted over a bizarre incident in which an American man swam to her lakeside home.
A lower court rejected an initial appeal in October.
"The appeal was rejected," the Burmese official said, adding that the appeals of Suu Kyi’s two female assistants against similar periods of detention also met the same fate.
Suu Kyi can now make a final appeal to Burma’s’s chief justice – an option her lawyer and NLD spokesman Nyan Win said he would pursue.
The Burmese symbol of democratic aspirations has already spent 14 of the last 20 years in jail or under house arrest since the country’s last elections in 1990, which her National League for Democracy (NLD) won by a landslide.
