Suu Kyi's release reported on track

YANGON, Myanmar, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Reports from Myanmar say members of the military junta have signed an order freeing pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest.

The BBC said more police appeared to have gathered at her house. Suu Kyi's detention term expires Saturday, her lawyer said.

Reports did not say what conditions the government had placed on her release, the BBC reported.

Suu Kyi, 65, has been under house arrest in the country formerly known as Burma for 15 of the last 21 years.

"There is no law to hold her for another day. Her detention period expires on Saturday and she will be released," her lawyer, Nyan Win, said. "They should release her for the country."

However, the lawyer said Suu Kyi wasn't expected to accept a conditional release if it barred her from political activity, the BBC reported.

She was scheduled to be released last year but her detention was extended for a year after a U.S. man swam to her home.

Suu Kyi's supporters were gathering at the headquarters of her political party, the National League for Democracy, in anticipation of her release.

The party boycotted Sunday's elections, the first in 20 years for Myanmar, and was ordered to dissolve for refusing to participate. The election was roundly criticized by Western leaders as a sham, with U.S. President Barack Obama saying it was "neither free nor fair."