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Suu Kyi lawyers challenge witness ban

AFP, Yangon
Lawyers for Myanmar prodemocracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said yesterday (hey had asked a court to overturn an earlier ban that prevented three defence witnesses from testifying at her trial.
Myanmar's military junta has charged die Nobel laureate with breaching the terms of her house arrest after an American man. John Yettaw. swam unin-vitcd to her lakeside home in May. leaving her facing up to five years in jail.
Judges at the closed court in Yangon’s Insein prison last month refused to allow three people including two members of her party to testify’ at the trial, in which final arguments are due Friday.
"We haw filed a revision order to the court today... We want to call the other three witnesses," Kyi Win. her main laywer. told AFP
"The prosecution had 14 witnesses and we had only one so far. If you look at the numbers it is one-sided, and that is why we have made this application, headded.
Nyan Win. the spokesman for Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, said after going to court to file the application that it would be heard on Wednesday.
The three barred witnesses
were Tin Oo, a journalist who was Myanmar's longest serving prisoner until his release in September; Win Tin, the detained deputy chief of her party, and lawyer Khin Moe Moe.
fhe only person to testify last week for the defence was a legal expert.
"Tin Oo is a very important defence witness because he was a witness to the Depeym incident." Kyi Win said, referring to a deadly attack on Aung San Suu Kyi's motorcade by a pro-junta mob in May2003.
Aung San Suu Kyi and Win Tin haw both been detained ever since the attack
Her legal team has questioned the basis of the laws under which she was held under house arrest for the past six years - the detention order was lifted last week - and argued that the charges against her are invalid.
She remains in prison awaiting the verdict.
Kyi Win added that final arguments in the case could be delayed until after Friday if the court agrees to hear their appeal to admit die extra witnesses.