Suu Kyi proclaims her innocence in court
A screen capture of an MRTV television broadcast shows Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi as she is escorted to a car on the third day of her trial at Yangon's Insein Prison on May 20. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Thursday called on Myanmar to stop the 'charade' of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi's trial, as the junta again barred media and diplomats from the court. Photo: AFP
Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi proclaimed her innocence in front of a prison tribunal Friday, her lawyer said.
"Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said 'I have no guilt as I didn't commit any crime,'" Nyan Win said at the end of the fifth day of her trial on charges of breaching the conditions of her house arrest.
Nyan Win said Aung San Suu Kyi spoke to the court, held behind closed doors, as the prosecution wrapped its case before the trial resumes on Monday with her legal defence.
Earlier Myanmar's junta went on the offensive over Aung San Suu Kyi's trial yesterday, blaming "anti-government elements" for the visit of an American to her home and alleging he was a "secret agent or her boyfriend".
The rare comments came after widespread condemnation of the decision to try the Nobel Peace Prize winner on charges of breaching the terms of her house arrest because of the intrusion.
The New Light of Myanmar reported Foreign Minister Nyan Win as saying that he believed the bizarre incident -- in which a 53-year-old man used homemade flippers to swim across a lake to Aung San Suu Kyi's house -- had been set up by anti-junta forces.
Meanwhile, Myanmar's consul general in Hong Kong also pointed an accusatory finger at the defendants, controversially suggesting in an online posting that Yettaw knew Aung San Suu Kyi as a "secret agent or her boyfriend."
But a court report in the New Light contradicted the conspiracy theories and said Yettaw had "frightened" Aung San Suu Kyi with his arrival.
She had refused the American's request for photographs to post on the video sharing website YouTube it said. A two-hour film Yettaw made of his visit was shown to the court on Thursday according to a defence lawyer, also called Nyan Win.
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