Yangon  - Court proceedings against Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi are to resume June 26 after the defence won permission to present at least one new witness in her case, opposition sources said Friday.

A special court set up in Yangon's notorious Insein Prison set June 26 to hear the testimony of defence witness Khin Moh Moh, said Nyan Win, a member of the Suu Kyi's defence team.

Suu Kyi, her two household helpers and US national John William Yettaw have been accused of breaking the terms of her detention by allowing the American to swim to her lakeside home-cum-prison on May 3 and stay there until swimming away on May 5.

The Insein Prison court originally rejected Khin Moh Moh, a female attorney and member of Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) opposition party, as a witness but it's decision was overruled by the Yangon Division Court.

The Division Court, however, barred the defence from presenting senior NLD members Tin Oo and Win Tin as witnesses, a decision the defence appealed to the Supreme Court Thursday.

The Supreme Court postponed a decision on the two witnesses initially until Friday but then delayed its ruling again.

"In my 40 years as a lawyer, I've never seen such a thing," Nyan Win said of the Supreme Court's indecision. Nyan Win is also a spokesman for the NLD.

Myanmar's judiciary has little or no independence from the country's ruling military junta, observers said. The country has been under military rule since 1962.

Originally, the prosecution and defence were scheduled to make their final arguments in the trial on June 5.

Suu Kyi's trial began May 11. While the prosecution was allowed to present 14 witnesses, the defence was allowed one.

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate has spent 13 of the past 19 years in detention.

Yettaw faces several charges, including immigration violations for visiting a prisoner while on a tourist visa and local laws for swimming illegally in Inya Lake.

The junta's critics have accused it of using the case as a pretext to keep Suu Kyi in jail during a politically sensitive period leading up to a general election planned for next year.

The NLD won the 1990 general election by a landslide but has been blocked from power by Myanmar's junta for the past 19 years.

The new trial of Suu Kyi, whose most recent six-year house detention expired May 27, has sparked a chorus of protests from world leaders and even statements of concern from its regional allies in the Association of South-East Asian Nations.(dpa)