A Myanmar court has rejected an appeal by the country's detained opposition leader against her house arrest, amid hopes she will be released.
It was the third and final appeal by Aung San Suu Kyi, 65, who has spent most of the last 20 years locked up in her home in Yangon.
Never the less, officials said on Wednesday that preparations for Aung San Suu Kyi's anticipated release - within days of Sunday's general elections - were under way.
Lawyers for the Nobel peace laureate said they expected her to be freed on Saturday, when the latest detention order expires, but had hoped she would also be acquitted to prove her innocence.
Nyan Win, one of Aung San Suu Kyi's lawyers, said the court posted its decision on a public notice board on Thursday, saying only that the appeal was turned down and giving no explanation.
"The court rejected our appeal and upholds the previous court decisions," he told the Associated Press news agency on Thursday.
"This decision is absolutely wrong and shows the state of justice system in the country."
Myanmar's ruling generals stopped Ang San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party from taking power after it won a landslide victory in the last poll in 1990.
This is an absolute mockery on the part of the Mayanmar government and the question is will there any solution to this in near future.
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