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YANGON : The US man on trial in Myanmar for trespassing at Aung San Suu Kyi's home was said to be feeling better in intensive care Wednesday after having a seizure in prison, a hospital worker said.
John Yettaw, 54, who has epilepsy and other health problems according to his lawyer, was taken from Insein prison to Yangon General Hospital on Monday night, where he was recovering after treatment.
"Mr Yettaw is feeling better now. He is staying in the intensive care unit," the hospital worker said on condition of anonymity.
The source added that neurological specialists had visited the unit to give him treatment, but could not give any further details.
Yettaw was being kept under guard away from other patients, a hospital worker said Tuesday, while a spokesman for the US embassy in Yangon confirmed he had been taken to the city hospital.
Khin Maung Oo, Yettaw's lawyer, said his client had been staying at the prison's hospital during his trial, where he had been receiving treatment for diabetes, epilepsy and a heart complaint by doctors from the health ministry.
"(But) when I met him for the verdict date on July 31 he said he was fine," the lawyer told AFP Tuesday.
Yettaw, a former military veteran from Missouri, is on trial alongside opposition leader Suu Kyi and two of her female aides after he donned homemade flippers and swam to her home in May.
The devout Mormon said he embarked on his mission to warn Suu Kyi of a vision he had had that she would be assassinated.
He faces charges of abetting Suu Kyi's breach of security laws, immigration violations and a municipal charge of illegal swimming. All four defendants face up to five years in prison.
Yettaw was arrested just days before the most recent, six-year spell of Suu Kyi's house arrest was due to expire in the military-run nation.
Suu Kyi is accused of breaching the terms of her house arrest by giving Yettaw refuge at her home, but critics say the charges have been trumped up to keep her locked away until after elections scheduled for 2010.
A verdict in her case had been expected last week but judges postponed their pronouncement until August 11, saying they needed time to review the case.
- AFP/ir
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