Burmese junta extends Aung San Suu Kyi detention

by Peter Walker 

The detained Burmese opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. Photograph: Pornchai Kittiwongsakul/EPA

Burma's junta today extended the house arrest of the country's democratically elected opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, dashing hopes she might be freed after five years of detention.

A delegation from the military regime's interior ministry visited the Nobel peace laureate this afternoon at her home in Rangoon, where she has been held since May 2003.

As the group left after the 10-minute meeting, government officials told reporters that Suu Kyi had been told her house arrest order had been extended for another 12-month period.

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