Suu Kyi faces lawsuit over home

The Burmese pro-independence leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is being sued by her elder brother for a share in the family home.

She has been summoned to appear in Rangoon district court on Tuesday, but it is not known whether the military authorities will permit her to leave house arrest.

Miss Suu Kyi's brother Aung San Oo lives in the United States; he is not as openly critical of the military government as his sister. The lakeside villa where the independence leader lives -- and was held under house arrest for six years -- was given to her mother by the then-government after the assassination of her father Aung San in 1947. Last month there was an attempt to evict her party from its headquarters.

But the owners of the building temporarily abandoned the attempt after they could not deliver the eviction notice to senior party members, who are all under house arrest.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service