Burma's National League for Democracy (NLD), the party founded by democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, has denied reports that the Nobel Peace Prize laureate had been hospitalised. "I have investigated these reports, and it's not true," party spokesman Lwin told AFP.He says he cannot not explain the reports, which originated from US-based exile groups.
Aung San Suu Kyi is under house arrest and is only allowed periodic contact with her doctor, who could not be immediately reached for comment. The 60-year-old Opposition leader has been detained at her lake-side residence in Burma's capital of Rangoon following a May 2003 attack on her convoy by junta-backed militia in the country's central region. She has spent more than 10 of the last 17 years under house arrest.