Protests around the world to mark Suu Kyi birthday

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YANGON (AFP) — Myanmar pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has marked a grim 64th birthday in prison, as activists took to the Internet and planned worldwide protests to press the military junta to free her.

Famous names including British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, footballer David Beckham and US actors George Clooney and Julia Roberts all offered support on a website while the United States and EU led political calls for her release.

The Nobel Laureate has spent 13 of the past 19 years in detention and is now being held in Yangon's notorious Insein Prison during her trial for a bizarre incident in which an American man swam to her home.

Supporters at her National League for Democracy's headquarters in Yangon began the day by giving food to Buddhist monks at...

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