Suu Kyi's legal team has asked why the authorities did not respond to Suu Kyi's earlier complaint when Yettaw first broke into her compound to try to contact her in November.

Critics of Myanmar's military regime consider Yettaw's intrusions an unintended gift to the junta, giving it an excuse to detain Suu Kyi after her previous six-year detention expired on May 27.

The military government is believed to want her confined until at least after elections planned for 2010.

Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party won the 1990 general elections by a landslide but has been blocked from power by Myanmar's junta for the past 19 years.

The new trial of Suu Kyi has sparked a chorus of protests from world leaders and even strongly worded statements from Myanmar's regional allies in the Association of South-East Asian Nations.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week offered Myanmar improved relations if it released Suu Kyi, but there was no indication the junta would agree.

The New Light of Myanmar, a state-run newspaper, said Friday in an editorial that 'demanding the release of Suu Kyi means showing reckless disregard for the law'.