Britain Says Suu Kyi Is in ‘Notorious’ Jail

Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is being held under her nation’s “most draconian” law at a jail near the capital, a British official said.

The military junta in Myanmar, formerly Burma, has refused to release Suu Kyi since she was taken into custody May 30 after an attack on members of her opposition party.

Foreign Office Minister Mike O’Brien did not say how he learned Suu Kyi’s location but said he was “appalled” that she “is being held in the notorious Insein Jail ... in a two-room hut.”

O’Brien said Suu Kyi was being held under a 1975 state protection law, which allows for detention without access to family or lawyers for 180 days at a time with no prospect of appeal.