 Ms Suu Kyi is reportedly suffering from low blood pressure and dehydration |
Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to face trial for breaching the conditions of her detention under house arrest, her lawyers have said.
Ms Suu Kyi will stand trial on 18 May, lawyer Hla Myo Myint told reporters. 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.
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The charges are yet to be confirmed by the government.
But it looks as though this is a pretext to keep her detained until elections due in 2010 which the generals think will give them some legitimacy, says BBC South-East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head.
Another of her lawyers said they would contest the charge.
"The charge is going to be violating the conditions of her house arrest and what her lawyer is going to argue is that of course that's ridiculous because, yes under the terms of her arrest she cannot invite people to visit her but she of course did not invite this person to visit her," Jared Genser told the BBC.
