YANGON, Myanmar, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Myanmar's Supreme Court Monday heard an appeal against the extended detention of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, but a ruling may be a week away.The 64-year-old Suu Kyi, who has spent 14 of the last 20 years under house arrest, is appealing a sentence last year which further extended her detention by 18 months allegedly for violating detention rules because of an American, who swam across a lake and stayed in her residence. She denied the charges, saying she had asked him to leave.
Her attorneys are appealing the sentence not on the facts of the case but on technical grounds that the charges against her relied on a law that is now defunct, the BBC reported.
"From a purely legal point of view, we should win," one of her lawyers said while Western diplomats in the country, formerly called Burma, warned that could be based more on hope.
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