(Updated 3:56 p.m.) YANGON, Myanmar - Police hauled away about 20 opposition party members Tuesday as their leader Aung San Suu Kyi waited for a decision from the ruling junta on whether it would release her or extend her five-year detention period.
Witnesses saw riot police shove of the National League for Democracy into a truck as they were marching from the party's headquarters to Suu Kyi's home.
It was not immediately clear where the truck was headed. Security was stepped up around her villa as the junta faced a deadline to deal with her detention.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Suu Kyi, who has been held under house arrest continuously since May 2003, has long been the symbol of the regime's brutality and the focus of a worldwide campaign that has lobbied for her release.
Her house arrest