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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: Myanmar under pressure to free Aung San Suu Kyi AFP - Saturday, May 16 YANGON (AFP) - - Myanmar faced intense international pressure Friday to free pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi after she was imprisoned ahead of a new trial next week for breaching the terms of her house arrest. ADVERTISEMENT The United States and the United Nations led calls for the immediate release of the 63-year-old Nobel Peace laureate, whose trial is due to start in jail on Monday. The ruling military junta took Aung San Suu Kyi from her home on Thursday to Yangon's notorious Insein prison, where she was charged over a bizarre incident in which an American man swam to her lakeside residence. There was no comment from Myanmar's secretive regime, which has kept the frail opposition leader in detention for most of the last 19 years and now looks set to do so past controversial elections that are due next year. The UN's top human rights official called Friday on the military junta to immediately release Aung San Suu Kyi, accusing the government of persecuting her and detaining her illegally. "I deplore Ms. Suu Kyis ongoing persecution, and call for her immediate and unconditional release," said the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she was "deeply troubled" by the "baseless" case laid against Aung San Suu Kyi just days before her latest six-year detention was to have expired. Britain, France and other Western nations -- which like the United States have imposed sanctions on the country formerly known as Burma -- condemned the decision and said it did not bode well for the 2010 elections. A group of eminent statesmen including South African Nobel winner Desmond Tutu and former US president Jimmy Carter also demanded her release. Indonesia and Singapore, both members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to which Myanmar also belongs, called for the junta to release Aung San Suu Kyi and drop the "arbitrary" new charges against her. Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva expressed concern about the health of Aung San Suu Kyi and the country's long-delayed "road map" to democracy, while ASEAN ambassadors were meeting in Yangon to agree on a joint statement. In a rare open letter, the Norwegian Nobel Committee called Aung San Suu Kyi's imprisonment "totally unacceptable". "The Norwegian Nobel Committee protests strongly against the way in which the government of Myanmar has treated Aung San Suu Kyi," the head of the committee Thorbjoern Jagland said in a letter to Myanmar's ambassador in London, responsible for diplomatic ties with Scandinavia. Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone of Japan, one of Myanmar's major international donors, voiced "deep concern" over the situation. Japan in 2003 suspended most assistance other than emergency aid and some training funds to Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. Myanmar authorities are currently holding Aung San Suu Kyi and her two maids, who were also charged, at a house inside the grounds of Insein prison pending the trial. Stopped by the junta from taking power after leading her National League for Democracy party from winning a landslide victory in the country's last election in 1990, she now faces a maximum jail term of five years. The case centred around a mysterious US national, John Yettaw, who was arrested last week after using a pair of homemade flippers to swim across a lake to Aung San Suu Kyi's crumbling house. His motives remain unclear but Irrawaddy magazine, published by Myanmar exiles in Thailand, dismissed speculation about the coincidental timing of the incident before the expiry of her detention order. It said he was "simply a weird character who acted alone." Aung Naing Oo, a Myanmar analyst based in Thailand, said that the Western outrage over the new charges against Aung San Suu Kyi would likely have little impact on junta leader Senior General Than Shwe and his deputies. "The problem is the Burmese military don't care about international opinion," Aung Naing Oo told AFP. 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