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Costa Rican President Oscar Arias joined Desmond Tutu, Jody Williams, Rigoberta Menchu, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Wangari Mathaai, Shirin Ebadi, Betty Williams, and Mairead Corrigan Maguire in the demand.
The pro-democracy leader's protection was necessary for prosperity and stability in Myanmar and the whole of Southeast Asia, they said.
Aung San Suu Kyi has spent 13 of the last 19 years in jail or under house arrest at the hands of Myanmar's generals, most of it at her lakeside house in Yangon.
The 63-year-old is now on trial at the notorious Insein prison outside Yangon, facing up to another five years' detention on charges of harbouring an American man who swam to her home.
Critics say the military regime has trumped up the charges to keep her locked up during elections due next year, and also to beat a May 27 deadline when her latest six-year period of detention expires.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee said last week in a rare open letter that the imprisonment of Myanmar's 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate was "totally unacceptable."
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The pro-democracy leader's protection was necessary for prosperity and stability in Myanmar and the whole of Southeast Asia, they said.
Aung San Suu Kyi has spent 13 of the last 19 years in jail or under house arrest at the hands of Myanmar's generals, most of it at her lakeside house in Yangon.
The 63-year-old is now on trial at the notorious Insein prison outside Yangon, facing up to another five years' detention on charges of harbouring an American man who swam to her home.
Critics say the military regime has trumped up the charges to keep her locked up during elections due next year, and also to beat a May 27 deadline when her latest six-year period of detention expires.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee said last week in a rare open letter that the imprisonment of Myanmar's 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate was "totally unacceptable."
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