High court rejects Suu Kyi appeal

YANGON, Myanmar, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Myanmar's Yangon divisional court Friday rejected an appeal by Aung San Suu Kyi of her conviction for violating house arrest, officials said.

Suu Kyi, 64, general secretary of the National League for Democracy, was serving a reduced 18-month sentence when an American, John William Yettaw, sneaked into her restricted home by swimming across the Inya Lake in Yangon, China's state-run Xinhua news service reported.

A new trial found her guilty of harboring Yettaw for three days, a violation of the house arrest agreement. The conviction restored the full 3-year sentence but it was commuted again to 18 months.

Yettaw was sentenced to seven years in jail but was released and deported as requested by U.S. Sen. Jim Webb, D- Va., head of the Senate East Asian and Pacific Affairs subcommittee.