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Suu Kyi, 63, went on trial four days ago accused of breaching a house arrest order that expires next week. Pro- democracy campaigners say the ruling generals are looking for a legal pretext to put her in jail before 2010 elections.Ban said Suu Kyi, who is being held in Insein Prison in the former capital, Yangon, is in good health and UN officials in the country are monitoring her condition. Ban spoke in an interview with CNN aired yesterday.If Suu Kyi is found guilty, she could be jailed for as many five years The Nobel Peace Prize winner has spent 13 years in detention since her National League for Democracy party won Myanmar’s last elections in 1990, a result rejected by the military that has ruled the country formerly known as Burma since 1962.
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