Burma's Suu Kyi found guilty

The Burmese pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been found guilty of violating state security laws, in effect preventing her from campaigning in next year's elections.

A court in Rangoon convicted her of breaking the terms of her house arrest when she allowed an American man, John Yettaw, to stay at her lakeside home after he swam there uninvited in May.

Ms Suu Kyi, who had denied the charge, was sentenced to an additional three years house arrest but this was commuted to eighteen months by the military government.

There's been strong international condemnation.

She has now been returned to her home where she has lived under house arrest for nearly twenty years.

Mr Yettaw was found guilty on three separate charges and sentenced to seven years in prison.

First broadcast 11 August 2009