Aung San Suu Kyi's trial resumes

YANGON, Myanmar, July 10 (UPI) -- The trial of Nobel Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi resumed Friday in Myanmar after being delayed last week by a visit from U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

The pro-democracy activist went on trial May 18, charged with violating terms of her house arrest.

Ban met twice with junta leader Senior Gen. Than Shwe, who denied Ban's requests to see Suu Kyi, under house arrest for nearly 14 of the last 20 years, The New York Times reported. Ban has called her detention "unacceptable."

State prosecutors say Suu Kyi violated her house arrest by allowing a U.S. man to spend the night in her house after he swam across a lake to enter her waterfront home. The man, John William Yettaw, 53, of Falcon, Mo., is on trial for trespassing, and two women who share Suu Kyi's house were charged with helping to harbor him.

The trial is taking place inside Insein Prison near Yangon, once known as Rangoon in the country formerly known as Burma. If convicted, she could be sentenced to prison for as long as five years.