Today, BBC News reported that Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been under house arrest in Burma, was not released earlier today. She was expected to be released today as the end of an extension on her sentence that was added after an American swam a large lake near her house in an effort to rescue her.
Spectators were told to return on Saturday. The postponement of Ms Suu Kyi's release has come under questioning. A main point raised is that of the elections on Sunday, the first in 20 years after the elected party was not allowed to assume the role.
Authorities look to the upcoming election as a step from military rule to democracy, but some Western governments and human rights groups have denounced the idea of the elections being free or fair.
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