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"Her lawyer said the authorities will charge the lady and her two maids at the court in Insein prison," Nyan Win, a spokesman for her National League for Democracy (NLD), told AFP, referring to Myanmar's most notorious jail.
"They will be taken to the court later today. We still don't know what kind of charges they will be, but we will defend the facts," he said.
Authorities were expected to take Aung San Suu Kyi and the other two women from the lakeside home at 7:00 am (0030 GMT) and present her in court at the jail on the outskirts of Yangon after 10:00 am, he said.
News of the charges emerged after the lawyer, Kyi Win, visited Aung San Suu Kyi at her house Wednesday, the spokesman said.
Aung San Suu Kyi has spent most of the past 19 years detained in virtual isolation in her crumbling compound since the junta refused to recognise the NLD's landslide victory in the country's last elections in 1990.
Her party said at the weekend that she was in poor health and called for her to be given urgent medical assistance after her doctor was arrested for questioning over the incident with the American.
Lawyer Kyi Win said last week that Yettaw was an "adventurous" American acting of his own accord.
Her latest period of detention at her home -- where she lives with her maids and is permitted occasional visits from her lawyer and doctor -- expires at the end of May but diplomats say it is likely the government will extend this sentence.
In Washington, the US State Department said that Myanmar authorities had allowed a US diplomat to visit Yettaw on Wednesday.
"Mr Yettaw has not been charged, nor have the Burmese authorities provided information on the next steps in this case," the US statement said, referring to the country by its former name.
"The embassy has stressed to Burmese authorities the US government's strong interest in Mr Yettaw's case and our concerns for his health, welfare and fair treatment," it said.
Myanmar officials also confirmed that the US had obtained consular access to Yettaw, 53, whom authorities in Yangon have described as a Vietnam War veteran.
The state-run New Light of Myanmar newspaper said that Yettaw had confessed to arriving in Yangon on a tourist visa on May 2. He then swam to the compound the following night "and secretly entered the house and stayed there."
Myanmar official sources said the man had succeeded in meeting Aung San Suu Kyi during his time at the house before he was arrested in the early hours of May 6 while swimming back across the lake.
The newspaper said authorities confiscated his passport and a black haversack, torch, folding pliers, a camera, two US 100-dollar bills and some Myanmar currency notes.
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"They will be taken to the court later today. We still don't know what kind of charges they will be, but we will defend the facts," he said.
Authorities were expected to take Aung San Suu Kyi and the other two women from the lakeside home at 7:00 am (0030 GMT) and present her in court at the jail on the outskirts of Yangon after 10:00 am, he said.
News of the charges emerged after the lawyer, Kyi Win, visited Aung San Suu Kyi at her house Wednesday, the spokesman said.
Aung San Suu Kyi has spent most of the past 19 years detained in virtual isolation in her crumbling compound since the junta refused to recognise the NLD's landslide victory in the country's last elections in 1990.
Her party said at the weekend that she was in poor health and called for her to be given urgent medical assistance after her doctor was arrested for questioning over the incident with the American.
Lawyer Kyi Win said last week that Yettaw was an "adventurous" American acting of his own accord.
Her latest period of detention at her home -- where she lives with her maids and is permitted occasional visits from her lawyer and doctor -- expires at the end of May but diplomats say it is likely the government will extend this sentence.
In Washington, the US State Department said that Myanmar authorities had allowed a US diplomat to visit Yettaw on Wednesday.
"Mr Yettaw has not been charged, nor have the Burmese authorities provided information on the next steps in this case," the US statement said, referring to the country by its former name.
"The embassy has stressed to Burmese authorities the US government's strong interest in Mr Yettaw's case and our concerns for his health, welfare and fair treatment," it said.
Myanmar officials also confirmed that the US had obtained consular access to Yettaw, 53, whom authorities in Yangon have described as a Vietnam War veteran.
The state-run New Light of Myanmar newspaper said that Yettaw had confessed to arriving in Yangon on a tourist visa on May 2. He then swam to the compound the following night "and secretly entered the house and stayed there."
Myanmar official sources said the man had succeeded in meeting Aung San Suu Kyi during his time at the house before he was arrested in the early hours of May 6 while swimming back across the lake.
The newspaper said authorities confiscated his passport and a black haversack, torch, folding pliers, a camera, two US 100-dollar bills and some Myanmar currency notes.
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