Some 300 Myanmar people held a rally in central Tokyo on Sunday,

Some 300 Myanmar people held a rally in central Tokyo on Sunday, demanding the military government release pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, whose house arrest was extended this month.

The demonstrators, many wearing T-shirts with her picture, marched through the streets of the Shibuya district in downtown Tokyo, shouting slogans in unison and handing out leaflets to weekend shoppers.

They carried signs saying “Unjustice Court of Burma” or “Free Daw Aung San Suu Kyi”, using a Burmese honorific for Suu Kyi, who has been detained for 14 of the past 20 years.

Earlier this month a prison court in Yangon convicted the Nobel Prize laureate for breaching security laws and sentenced her to house arrest for 18 months, drawing international condemnation.

Source AFP