Posted by Thawngsian Tung (CNC-Japan)
Tuesday June 9 2009
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) A Myanmar court has reinstated one of three barred defense witnesses in the trial of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Lawyers for Suu Kyi immediately said they would appeal the Tuesday decision by Yangon's Divisional Court in efforts to have all three testify at her trial.
The ruling partly reversed a lower court decision to disqualify all but one witness in the trial that has sparked global outrage.
Suu Kyi faces five years in prison if convicted of violating the terms of her lengthy house arrest.
The case revolves around an American man who swam secretly to her closely guarded lakeside home and stayed two days.
Critics say Myanmar's military rulers are using the case as an excuse to keep Suu Kyi locked up.