Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi detention against international law: UN

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A UN panel has found that Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is being detained in violation of international law and called for her immediate freedom, according to the ruling released by her family's US lawyer Thursday.

"The deprivation of liberty of Ms Aung San Suu Kyi is arbitrary" and in contravention of three provisions of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, said the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.

The independent UN tribunal, whose membership comprises experts from Algeria, Iran, Hungary, Paraguay, and Spain, informed Myanmar's military junta of the ruling three weeks ago before it was relayed to attorney Jared Ganser, who is also president of US rights group Freedom Now.