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News in Brief (November Issue)

By THE IRRAWADDY NOVEMBER, 2004 - VOLUME 12 NO.10

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Suu Kyi’s Detention Extended

National League for Democracy, or NLD, spokesman U Lwin said that opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s house arrest was extended for another year on November 27. U Lwin said that the move was carried out under provisions of the 1975 State Protection Act, Article 10/b, which empowers the government to detain prisoners for up to five years without filing charges. According to an Associated Press report, Prime Minister Lt-Gen Soe Win told Association of Southeast Asian Nation, or Asean, leaders during a November summit in Vientiane, that he did not have information about Suu Kyi’s continued detention as he had not been in touch with officials back home.

Opposition Receives Silver Rose

Solidar, a Brussels-based NGO, bestowed the main opposition National League for Democracy, or NLD, with its annual Silver Rose award. An official ceremony was held at the European Parliament in Brussels on November 9 and San San, an NLD MP from Seikkan Township who now lives in exile, accepted the award on the party’s behalf. The NLD was presented with the Silver Rose in recognition of its long-standing struggle to bring democracy to Burma.

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