Aung San Suu Kyi has low blood pressure

by Phanida
Monday, 21 September 2009 17:37

Chiang Mai (Mizzima) - Detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is suffering from low blood pressure, her doctor said, after a medical check-up on Sunday, the first since she came back to her lakeside home last month.

Nyan Win, the Burmese democracy icon’s lawyer and spokesperson of her party the Nation al League for Democracy, said Dr. Tin Myo Win, Aung San Suu Kyi’s family doctor, briefed him about her health situation, after examining her with his assistant on Sunday.

“Yesterday afternoon, she was allowed to meet her family doctor. The doctor said she is in good health but has low blood pressure,” Nyan Win told Mizzima on Monday.

After returning to her lakeside home, Aung San Suu Kyi refused a medical check-up by other doctors. She had demanded that her family doctor be sent for a medical check-up.

She was shifted from her house, where she was spending six years of house-arrest, on May 14 to Rangoon’s notorious Insein prison, after authorities charged her of violating her detention rules by allowing an American, John Yettaw, who visited her in early May to stay in her home.

Dr. Tin Myo Win was also picked up by authorities on May 7 for interrogation and released after about 10 days in detention.

The northern district court found Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of allowing Yettaw to stay at her home, and sentenced her to three years in prison with hard labour.

But an executive order by the ruling junta’s military supremo Snr. Gen Than Shwe halved the sentence and allowed her to serve time at her lakeside home in Rangoon’s University Avenue.

On September 18, the divisional court heard her lawyers’ arguments over the appeal against the lower court’s verdict. The divisional court has scheduled October 2, for giving a ruling on the appeal.

Nyan Win said he and other members of Aung San Suu Kyi’s legal team are requesting the authorities to allow them a meeting with her before the court’s ruling on October 2.