Burma law formally bars Aung San Suu Kyi from election
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8559048.stm
Burma has issued a law which will bar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from taking part in planned elections and could force her party to expel her.
The new law prohibits anyone with a criminal conviction from belonging to a political party.
Ms Suu Kyi has been detained on various charges for most of the past 20 years, after winning the last polls in 1990.
She was already excluded from political office by a constitutional bar on people with foreign spouses.
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