Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to an additional eighteen months of house arrest after a controversial trial. Suu Kyi has already spent fourteen of the past twenty years in detention under Burma’s military junta. The trial has brought international condemnation, with critics accusing Burma’s military government of trying to keep Suu Kyi out of next year’s planned multi-party elections. The Nobel Peace Prize winner was found guilty of violating an internal security law. The charges stemmed from a mysterious incident in which an American, John Yettaw, swam uninvited to her lakeside home in May and stayed there for two days, in violation of the terms of her house arrest. In a separate trial, Yettaw was sentenced to seven years’ hard labor. Jared Genser, a lawyer who represents Suu Kyi overseas, said, “She is not being imprisoned because an American swam to her home but because she is viewed as a strong threat to the legitimacy of this regime and its plans for next year’s elections.”