Aung San Suu Kyi unwell and being denied treatment

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I have looked and have not found this posted elsewhere, apologies if it has and I've missed it.
The link will take you to The Burma Campaign petition to free political prisoners
Please consider signing it.
Also, if you wish to read it, this is the text of an email I received from them today.

"In the last few days you may have read reports that Burma?s democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is unwell and is being denied proper medical attention by the Burmese regime.

We are deeply concerned about her health and have urgently called on the United Nations and ASEAN to send envoys immediately, and insist on Aung San Suu Kyi being given proper medical treatment

HER DOCTOR HAS BEEN ARRESTED, MEDICAL ATTENTION DENIED
Aung San Suu Kyi is reported to be suffering from dehydration and low blood pressure, and having difficulty eating. Her doctor was arrested on Thursday without explanation. Another doctor was allowed to visit her on Friday, and reportedly put her on an IV drip. He was not allowed to visit her on Saturday. It is not clear what is wrong with Aung San Suu Kyi, or what treatment she is being allowed to receive.

Since Aung San Suu Kyi was detained in 2003, the dictatorship has repeatedly stopped her having proper medical access. The United Nations negotiated an agreement that her doctor be allowed to visit her once a month, which is less than the doctor said was necessary.

13 YEARS, 199 DAYS UNDER ARREST
Today Aung San Suu Kyi will have spent a total of 13 years and 199 days in detention since she was first placed under house arrest in 1989. The United Nations has ruled that Aung San Suu Kyi?s detention is illegal under international law, and also under Burmese law. The United Nations Security Council has also told the dictatorship that they must release Aung San Suu Kyi.

THE REGIME?S POLICY OF DENYING MEDICAL TREATMENT
The denial of medical treatment is systematically used against Burma?s 2,156 political prisoners. The regime deliberately leaves democracy activists to die in squalid conditions in Burma?s prisons."

Thank you if you have taken the time to read this.

13 years, 199 days. Good grief, what gives one person the right to detain and risk another persons life in the name of politics. I hope the UN brave up, stop talking and do something.

I don't really understand why there is not more protest a la Nelson Mandela about Aung San Suu Kyi. On a personal level, the fact that she was not allowed to see her dying husband, between 1995 and when he died in 1999, is appalling.

She also never sees her children.

What sacrifices this woman has made.

Glad to see you have highlighted this. Anyone looking for further information would do well to look at www.burmacampaign.org.uk . If you are interested in human rights but have not really followed what has and is going on in Burma, that website is a good starting point.

doh! just clicked on your original link to see if there was any new info and realised your petition link is not to a petition site (like the justgiving and amnesty internation type ones) but directly to the same site I mentioned! Will teach me not to read and click on OPs before posting!! Sorry infin.

My father and his family lived in Burma for a while and it is a subject close to his heart and consequently to mine too. Burma was a hot media topic a few years back but not often mentioned much now - as if everything is ok again! I know there have been many other global stories occupying the news, BUT this is still an ongoing humanitarian crisis.

Lemon tart...not surprised you didn't wade through that lot, I did think twice about posting the it all so please don't apologise!
I've supported The Burma Campaign for several years now and try to hightlght the Burma problem to friends. As you say, it is an issue rarely in the headlines (apart from the monk's protest in Sept 2007) and deserves far more ongoing coverage. The human rights abuses there are simply horrendous and the country has suffered for so many years.

What an incredible woman she is; I so hope she lives to see Burma, for which she has sacrificed so much, become a free and democratic country. It seems a distant possibility right now but if she is able to maintain hope and positivity after so many years under house arrest, it is the duty of the free world to continually highlight the issue. So I also direct anyone with an interest to go to The Burma Campaign website and find out more.