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Burma: Yangon court accepts Suu Kyi's appeal of house-arrest conviction.

BBC Monitoring International Reports

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Text of report in English by Japan's largest news agency Kyodo

Yangon, Sept. 4 Kyodo - The Yangon Divisional Court accepted Friday an appeal lodged Thursday by Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi against her conviction last month for breaching the terms of her house arrest.

The court set Sept. 18 as the date for hearing arguments against the Aug. 11 ruling that sentenced the 64-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who heads the National League for Democracy, to three years in prison because an uninvited US citizen swam to her compound.

After the sentence was ordered halved and then suspended by the country's junta chief, Suu Kyu was returned to house …

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