Verdict in Trial of Burmese Democracy Leader Postponed

The Court has deferred to get a conviction in the trial of the Burmese democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi. It was scheduled to be unveiled Friday, but her attorney says the court instead declared an unspecified "legal problem" had originally decided.

Security was tightened Friday in Insein prison in Rangoon, where the court would sentence.
Burma's state media had warned Aung San Suu Kyi's supporters not to demonstrate or predict the outcome of the trial.

But the court unexpectedly delayed a decision until August 11.
A lawyer for the 64-year-old Nobel Prize winner, New Win, said the court delayed the decision because it is a "legally that" the judges said, first determined. He says that the problem may be that Aung San Suu Kyi's bills under the laws of an outdated constitution.

"They can not use the 1974 constitution because 1988 Constitution insurgency has collapsed, and it has come to an end," he said. "This is the main cause big problem there."

The military authorities brutally crushed 1988 student uprising and killed thousands of demonstrators and jailing thousands more.

Aung San Suu Kyi became the icon of Burma's democratic movement and leads the opposition National League for Democracy, which won Burma's last election in 1990.

The military authorities ignored the election and has kept Aung San Suu Kyi locked up for most of the past two decades.

She was due to begin in May, but was instead charged with a violation of her house arrest for Harbo ring a uninvited American man without official permission. The man, John Yettaw, swam her home uninvited.

Human rights activists have widely condemned the trial as a sham rigged to keep Aung San Suu Kyi locked up through the elections scheduled for next year. She is expected to be equally guilty and sentenced to up to five years in prison.

UN, U.S. and other governments have urged the Burmese government to free her and all other political prisoners.

John Yettaw and Aung San Suu Kyi to live-in assistants are samejail conditions.