"Burma?s opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has stated that Burma?s severe restrictions on free expression and access to information will compromise any attempt to hold free and fair elections later this year. Suu Kyi, who remains under house arrest in Rangoon, was speaking this week through her lawyer, Nyan Win. She said that she was unwilling to engage in the election process because the rights to freedom of expression, freedom of information and freedom of association are consistently denied to Burmese citizens. According to Nyan Win: ?‘If there is no freedom of information and freedom of expression, there will be no free and fair election?, Aung San Suu Kyi said. ‘The basic requirements like freedom of press, speech and campaigning, and also free and fair election[s] will be needed if she has to decide whether or not to contest in election.?”..."