The house arrest was due to expire on Wednesday, but Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi had already been moved on May 14 to Insein Prison, where she is on trial on a charge of violating the terms of her detention by allowing an American intruder to spend the night at her home.
“She is free from that detention order, but really she is not free,” said her lawyer, U Nyan Win.
If she is convicted in court, he said, she would probably remain in prison rather than being given a new term of house arrest.
Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, 63, has been held under house arrest for 13 of the last 19 years. Her latest six-year term of detention was about to reach its legal limit and many analysts had viewed the trial as a means to extend it.
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