Burma agrees to hear Aung San Suu Kyi's appeal

A Burmese court today offered a glimmer of hope that the country's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, could be set free after it accepted an appeal by her lawyers. In a widely criticized decision, the Nobel peace laureate was given 18 months' house arrest on 11 August, after being found guilty of harboring an intruder at her lakeside mansion in Rangoon in May. The capital's divisional court will hear the appeal on 18 September, according to her lawyer, Nyan Win, who filed the appeal request yesterday. "We are satisfied with the decision," he said.