HUMAN rights campaigners in Welwyn Garden City will be gathering support for the Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi in the town centre tomorrow.

Denis Hawes of the Welwyn Garden City Amnesty group said: “Now is such a vital time for continued action on the gross human rights violations in Burma.

“This week Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi’s house arrest has been exchanged for prison and trial. This was due ostensibly to an uninvited intruder in her home, but more likely to the fact that her present sentence was coming to an end, and the military’s desire to keep her away from proposed elections next year.”

The group will have a stall between John Lewis and Debenham's, asking shoppers to sign petitions and letters for the Burmese government.

Ms Suu Kyi, whose election victory was promptly overturned by the country's military rulers, is on trial for supposedly violating the terms of her house arrest by allowing an American who swam across a lake to stay the night at her home.