Burma Court sentences Aung San Suu Kyi to 3 years

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The verdict however was immediately commuted to 18 months under house detention by the country's military supremo.

A special court set up in Insein Prison found Suu Kyi, 64, guilty of breaking the terms of her detention by allowing a US national to swim into her lakeside compound-cum-prison on May 3.

Burma's junta leader, Senior General Than Shwe, immediately reduced the court's three-year sentence in prison to one year and six months under house arrest.