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Aung Thein said the order revoking his license was issued on Friday, a day after a prison court charged Suu Kyi with breaking the conditions of her nearly six-year house arrest, which is due to expire on May 27. "I went to Insein Prison to be one of the five defense lawyers for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and they issued the order the next day," Aung Thein told Reuters. Critics of the regime have denounced the trial of Suu Kyi and two female companions, due to start on Monday, on charges stemming from the mysterious visit of an American intruder who was arrested after he claimed to have spent two days at her lakeside home in Yangon. Suu Kyi, 63, faces up to five years in jail if convicted. Her lawyers insist she is innocent and did not invite U.S. citizen John Yettaw, who according to state media swam to her tightly-guarded lakeside home using homemade flippers. Yettaw's motives remain unclear, but he has been charged with various offences, including encouraging others to break the law and "illegal swimming." The military, which has ruled the former Burma since 1962, has so far ignored the international outcry over its latest crackdown on Suu Kyi, who has spent more than 13 of the past 19 years in some form of detention. SANCTIONS U.S. President Barack Obama renewed sanctions against the regime on Friday, saying its actions and policies continued to pose a serious threat to U.S. interests. "The crisis between the United States and Burma ... has not been resolved," Obama said, citing sanctions first imposed by the United States in 1997 and ratcheted up several times in response to repression of democracy activists. "These actions and policies are hostile to U.S. interests," Obama said. "For this reason, I have determined that it is necessary to ... maintain in force the sanctions against Burma to respond to this threat." Washington has led Western governments in gradually tightening sanctions against the regime over its resistance to political reforms and detention of Suu Kyi and more than 2,000 other activists. But neither sanctions, nor the policy of engagement espoused by Myanmar's regional neighbors, have succeeded in coaxing the generals into meaningful reforms. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's admitted in February that sanctions have not worked and Washington was looking for new ways to influence the regime. But analysts had not expected that review to lead to a swift change in America's sanctions policy. Pro-democracy activists cheered Obama's announcement and urged him to lead a wider effort to pressure the regime. Continued... View article on single page Share: Del.icio.us Digg Mixx Yahoo! 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