Yangon, July 28 (DPA) Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, currently on trial for breaking the terms of her house detention, now faces a civil court case in which she must fight for ownership of her house, her lawyer said Tuesday.

Suu Kyi's cousin, retired army officer Lieutenant Colonel Khin Maung Aye, on July 24 posted a public notice in the Mirror newspaper, claiming that he owned a portion of Suu Kyi's compound in Yangon and had already sold it.

The advertisement said that anybody who wanted to oppose the sale could register a legal objection within seven days.

'I have informed Daw (Mrs) Aung San Suu Kyi of this matter and she said she will take the necessary legal action against this announcement,' Suu Kyi's lawyer Nyan Win told DPA.

Suu Kyi, 64, is currently on trial for breaking the terms of her detention in her lakeside house-cum-prison for allowing US national John William Yettaw to swim to her compound and spend two nights, albeit uninvited, without informing the authorities.

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who has spent 14 of the past 20 years under house arrest, faces three to five years in jail if found guilty by a special court set up in Insein Prison.