Pressure mounts for release of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi

Per Reuters, famed Myanmar activist and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has pleaded not guilty in her latest trial. Suu Kyi faces up to five years in jail if convicted of letting an intruder into her home early May despite being on house arrest.

Suu Kyi’s lawyers said that the pro-democracy activist had let the man, John Yettaw, in her home because he had complained of leg cramps after swimming across a lake, according to Reuters. She has been on house arrest for 13 of the past 19 years in the East Asia nation.

The trial has been the subject of many critics’ concern, with claims that the Burmese military regime is simply looking for ways to imprison Suu Kyi, the leader of National League for Democracy party, per the Daily Mail.

Twitterers around the world are calling for Myanmar to free Suu Kyi.

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   chewelahboy (Cedar River, near Renton, Wash.) Reading about trial of Aung San Suu Kyi http://bit.ly/13GRYU – Free Aung San Suu Kyi 26 May 2009 from TweetDeck
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   fazabdulgaffa (Singapore) Enough drama, Myanmar, set Suu Kyi free! http://bit.ly/19120K 26 May 2009 from TwitterFox
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   underwaterone (Undisclosed) is joining the in in condeming the military junta of Burma…Free Aung San Suu Kyi NOW…. 26 May 2009 from web
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   KelieNZ (Belgium) Free Aung San Suu Kyi!!!
   http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/mtvaction.html 26 May 2009 from web
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   slightlyfamous (Singapore) Free Aung San Suu Kyi, elected prime minister of Burma. Free Burma. 26 May 2009 from web
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   SergioFlores_ (Stockholm, Sweden) The junta regime in Burma heave today Aung San Suu Kyi’s house arrest,but she stays in prison while trial goes on. FREE AUNG SAN SUU KYI NOW 26 May 2009 from mobile web
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   yeenDuex (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) mourn for the poor Derek Bentley and pray that there will be a fair trial for Aung San Suu Kyi. 26 May 2009 from web
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   Ravendon (Middleton, Wisc.) FREE AUNG SAN SUU KYI!!!! 26 May 2009 from bit.ly