Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to face trial for breaching the conditions of her detention under house arrest, her lawyer has said, according to BBC News.
She was taken to a prison from her home in Rangoon, where she has spent most of the past 19 years, to hear the charges.
A US man whose apparently uninvited visit to her home led to the charges, will also be tried on immigration and security offences, the lawyer added.
The house arrest was extended last year – a move which analysts say is illegal even under the junta’s own legal limits.
It is now due to expire at the end of May.
Ms Suu Kyi was detained after the NLD’s victory in a general election in 1990. Burma’s junta refused to allow the party to assume power.
The military are planning to stage an election next year which they hope will give their rule a veneer of legitimacy, our correspondent says.
