Suu Kyi's health improves, ready for verdict

By Aung Hla Tun

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's health has improved and she is ready to face a verdict that could see the Nobel laureate jailed for up to five years, her lawyers said on Saturday.

Suu Kyi, whose trial on charges of violating her house arrest will hear final arguments on Friday, was feeling better after she complained of leg cramps and a lack of sleep, Nyan Win, one of her lawyers, said.

The National League for Democracy (NLD) said on Friday it was "gravely concerned" for its leader's health and demanded urgent care for the 63-year-old, who has been held at a guest house in Yangon's Insein central prison since May 14.

Prison doctors visited Suu Kyi and recommended that she stop taking two medicines, said Nyan Win.

"She now can sleep well," he said after her defense team was allowed to meet her for two hours on Saturday.

"She didn't say what she expects the verdict to be. She is ready to face whatever happens."

Suu Kyi may be jailed for three to five years if found guilty of breaking the terms of her house arrest by allowing an American intruder to stay for two days after he swam to her home on May 4.

She has spent more than 13 of the past 19 years in some form of detention, much of it a virtual prisoner inside her home on Yangon's Inya Lake. Activists fear for her health if she is convicted, as is widely expected.