Suu Kyi braces for worst ahead of verdict

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YANGON, July 30 (AP): Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was bracing for the worst ahead of Friday's verdict in her high-profile trial, gathering medicine and books to prepare for a feared prison term, her lawyer said.
The frail 64-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner was "physically and mentally fine, and very alert," Nyan Win, one of her lawyers, said Thursday.
"She is getting ready for any result," he said. "She is preparing for the worst."
Suu Kyi is charged with violating the terms of her long house arrest when an American intruder swam across a lake and spent two nights at her home in early May. She faces a minimum of three years and maximum of five years in prison.
Suu Kyi's trial in a court at Myanmar's Insein Prison has drawn international condemnation since it opened May 18.
She is widely expected to be convicted, although there has been speculation she may stay under house arrest rather than serve time in jail. Suu Kyi has been in detention for 14 of the last 20 years, since leading a pro-democracy uprising that was crushed by Myanmar's military junta.
Ahead of the verdict, Suu Kyi provided her lawyers with a list of requested items, which they were able to bring her, Nyan Win said.
An Oxford-graduate who lived in India and Britain, Suu Kyi requested French history books, John Le Carre novels and Winston Churchill biographies, among others, in addition to Burmese-language books on Buddhism, he said.
AFP adds: Military-ruled Myanmar's state media Thursday warned citizens against inciting protests as the country awaited a verdict in the trial of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.