Yangon:
Myanmar's military junta has put the trial of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi back behind closed doors, after allowing diplomats and journalists to attend the hearing for just one day.
The regime had opened up the proceedings at the notorious Insein Prison near Yangon on Wednesday in an apparent concession to fierce international criticism of the charges against the Nobel Peace Prize winner.
But it clamped down again on Thursday, despite a warning from US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that elections scheduled in 2010 would automatically be "illegitimate" because of the democracy icon's treatment.
"The press will not be allowed today. Only for one day were diplomats and press allowed," a Myanmar official said on condition of anonymity.
A smiling, healthy-looking Aung San Suu Kyi, 63, had thanked diplomats for coming to the trial and said hoped to meet them again in "better days."
Authorities allowed one diplomat from each of the 30 foreign embassies in Yangon to attend the courtroom, while Aung San Suu Kyi later held a separate meeting with envoys from Thailand, Singapore and Russia.
The regime had opened up the proceedings at the notorious Insein Prison near Yangon on Wednesday in an apparent concession to fierce international criticism of the charges against the Nobel Peace Prize winner.
But it clamped down again on Thursday, despite a warning from US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that elections scheduled in 2010 would automatically be "illegitimate" because of the democracy icon's treatment.
"The press will not be allowed today. Only for one day were diplomats and press allowed," a Myanmar official said on condition of anonymity.
A smiling, healthy-looking Aung San Suu Kyi, 63, had thanked diplomats for coming to the trial and said hoped to meet them again in "better days."
Authorities allowed one diplomat from each of the 30 foreign embassies in Yangon to attend the courtroom, while Aung San Suu Kyi later held a separate meeting with envoys from Thailand, Singapore and Russia.
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