Nobel committee blasts Aung San Suu Kyi
treatment
OSLO (AP) - The Nobel
Peace Prize awards committee issued a rare public statement Friday to
condemn the imprisonment of 1991 peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and to
demand her immediate release.The 63-year-old opposition leader was
jailed on Thursday on charges of violating her house arrest. She has spent
13 of the past 19 years in detention without trial for her nonviolent
promotion of democracy.
The secretive Nobel committee traditionally does not comment on past
laureates. However, its non-voting secretary Geir Lundestad said they are
deeply concerned about Suu Kyi and had made earlier appeals on her behalf.
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