Myanmar jails four supporters of Suu Kyi

Myanmar jails four supporters of Suu Kyi

MYANMAR: Four officials of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi's
opposition party have been jailed for seven years after a closed
trial inside a Myanmar jail, their lawyer said on Friday.

The two men and two women, district-level officials of Suu
Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD), were charged with
sending NLD statements to dissident groups on the Thai border, a
party official said.

Lawyer Nyan Win, a member of the NLD legal advisory committee
who represented the four, said they were found guilty on Thursday
at a trial in Insein jail under legislation on threats to
national security.

"I will arrange an appeal for them as soon as possible," he
said.

"The court made the decision based on the confession of my
clients in interrogations by military intelligence without any
concrete evidence to support the allegations against them," he
said.

The two women, Than Than Htay and Yi Yi Win, were in poor
health, he said. He identified the two men as Tin Myint and San
Ya. -- Reuters