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Pro-democracy leader Suu Kyi found guilty by Burma court
Agence France Presse - August 11, 2009
Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to three years' jail and hard labor by a Burma court on Tuesday, but the head of the ruling junta commuted the punishment to 18 months' house arrest, a minister said.
The court sentenced her on charges of breaching the terms of her house arrest after a bizarre incident in which an American man, John Yettaw, swam to her lakeside house in May, an AFP correspondent in court said.
But Home Affairs minister General Maung Oo said outside the court that military ruler Than Shwe had signed a special order suspending the sentence and ordered that Suu Kyi should spend 18 months under house arrest.
John Yettaw, 54, was also sentenced to a total of seven years' imprisonment and hard labor.
Yettaw, the co-defendent in Suu Kyi's trial, got three years for breaching security laws, three years for immigration violations and one year for a municipal charge of illegal swimming.
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