UN Chief Ban Ki-Moon is in Burma in a bid to seek the release of political prisoners including opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Mr. Ban will hold talks with Burma’s military leader, General Than Shwe. Ms Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Laureate, has spent much of the past two decades in prison or under house arrest.
Her trial on charges of breaking the terms of her house arrest is about to resume after an interruption of more than a month. Ms Suu Kyi’s lawyers have been appealing against the judge’s ban on testimony from three defence witnesses. But sources say one additional defence witness will now be allowed to testify.
