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YANGON: Myanmar's high court has set a date for a hearing on Aung San Suu Kyi's appeal against a ban on two witnesses in her trial on charges of breaking her house arrest rules, the opposition leader's party said Saturday.
The Supreme Court will hear the application on June 17 after previously saying this would be postponed to a later date, said Nyan Win, one of Aung San Suu Kyi's lawyers and spokesman for her National League for Democracy (NLD).
"The Supreme Court announced the date on the notice board yesterday... We have to give our arguments for admission (of the appeal) on that day," he said
The 63-year-old Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi faces up to five years in jail if convicted on charges that she allowed an uninvited American man to swim to hear lakeside home in May.
Her main trial, at a special court in Yangon's notorious Insein prison, has been adjourned until June 26.
The two witnesses who have been banned from testifying in Aung San Suu Kyi's defence are Win Tin, a journalist and Myanmar's longest-serving political prisoner until his release in September, and detained deputy NLD leader Tin Oo.
The hearings have been criticised as a "show trial" by US President Barack Obama and have drawn condemnation from politicians worldwide.
Aung San Suu Kyi has spent 13 of the last 19 years in detention since the military government refused to recognise the NLD's landslide victory in the country's last elections, in 1990.
- AFP/yb
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