Aung San Suu Kyi Ill, Imprisoned

Two stories developing regarding the democratically elected leader of Burma and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. First, she has fallen ill and was initially being refused medical treatment after her doctor was arrested. Second, she has been arrested herself and taken to prison through no fault of her own. So, just to be clear, she has been arrested while under 'house arrest'.

From UPI:

Nyan Win, a spokesman for Aung San Suu Kyi's party, said she met with a doctor Monday who put her on a drip and there was no longer cause for concern about her health, CNN reported. The doctor was allowed to see her after being barred earlier from doing so.

The CNN report said while it was not clear why she was put on an IV, the procedure is used to give saline solution to patients facing dehydration.

The doctor attending on her was not her regular physician Tin Myo Win, who was arrested last week on an undisclosed charge, Nyan Win was quoted as saying.

Regarding her arrest, the story is strange to say the least. I received an email from Burma Campaign UK containing this information:

This morning Burma’s democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested by the regime and moved to Burma’s notorious Insein prison. It appears she will face trial for breaking the terms of her house arrest which forbids visitors, after an American man, John Yettaw, swam across Inya Lake and refused to leave her house.

Aung San Suu Kyi has committed no crime, she is the victim of a crime. There was an intruder in her house who refused to leave, yet she is the one being imprisoned.

HELP AUNG SAN SUU KYI - TAKE ACTION NOW
The United Nations and ASEAN must dispatch envoys to Burma to demand the immediate release of Aung San Suu Kyi and all Burma’s political prisoners.

Please go to this page where you can email the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon and ASEAN leaders to urge them to send envoys immediately. http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/ASSK_action.html

Guardian U.K. has this:

Hopes for the release of Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi were dashed today with the announcement she has been arrested for violating the terms of her house arrest and could face up to five years' confinement after a bizarre intrusion by an American who swam across a lake to her home.

The news was greeted with anguish by supporters of the increasingly frail Nobel peace laureate: her most recent six-year term of house arrest was due to end in less than two weeks.

International reaction was swift, and appalled.

The UK prime minister, Gordon Brown, who included her in his book on courage, said: "I am deeply disturbed that Aung San Suu Kyi may be charged with breaching the terms of her detention. The Burmese regime is clearly intent on finding any pretext, no matter how tenuous, to extend her unlawful detention.

"The real injustice, the real illegality, is that she is still detained in the first place. If the 2010 elections are to have any semblance of credibility, she and all political prisoners must be freed to participate. Only then will Burma be set on the road to real democracy, stability and prosperity."

Please contact the U.N. and/or your members of Congress and ask them to intervene on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's behalf.