Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech at the headquarters of her National League for Democracy party in Yangon, Myanmar. -- PHOTO: AP
YANGON - DEMOCRACY icon Aung San Suu Kyi appealed to Myanmar's Supreme Court on Thursday, the latest in a string of legal wranglings over the dissolution of her political party before last year's elections.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner's National League for Democracy (NLD) was disbanded for boycotting the military-ruled country's first election in 20 years in response to rules that seemed designed to bar her from taking part.
'We submitted our special appeal to the Supreme Court in (the capital) Naypyidaw this afternoon. We are waiting for their reply,' said Nyan Win, one of Ms Suu Kyi's lawyers and a party spokesman.
Ms Suu Kyi, a co-founder of the NLD, was released from more than seven years in detention on Nov 13, a few days after the rare election in which the junta-backed party claimed overwhelming victory.
Shortly after her release, the court refused to hear her lawsuit against the junta for dissolving the NLD. She had unsuccessfully filed an earlier suit with the Supreme Court aimed at preventing its abolition.
Court verdicts in the military-ruled country rarely favour opposition activists, and a series of appeals by Ms Suu Kyi against her house arrest - before it expired in November - were rejected. -- AFP
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