PARIS, Sept 26, 2007 (AFP) - The head of Myanmar's self-proclaimed government-in-exile, Sein Win, said Wednesday that democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has been transferred from house arrest to a prison cell.

Asked about rumours the Nobel Peace prize winner had been imprisoned amid mass protests led by Buddhist monks against Myanmar's military junta, he told AFP: 'We have this information from two sources.

'Up until now it was not certain because we only had one source, but now we have it from another independent source.'

YANGON, Sept 25, 2007 (AFP) - Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi remains under house arrest in Yangon, police officials said Tuesday, denying reports she had been transferred to a prison amid swelling protests.

'It's impossible,' one police official told AFP when asked about reports that the Nobel Peace Prize winner had been sent to the notorious Insein prison.

Two other police officials also denied that she had been transferred. Myanmar prison officials do not comment on inmates.

YANGON, Sept 24, 2007 (AFP) - Tens of thousands of people have poured into the streets Monday to greet Buddhist monks marching near the home of detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, witnesses said.

Thousands of Buddhist monks and their supporters were marching toward the former campus of Yangon University, in a rally separate from another procession of 30,000 monks and civilians heading toward the city centre, witnesses said.

At a nearby market, shops had closed as people filled the streets and sidewalks to await the monks, witnesses said.

YANGON, Sept 24, 2007 (AFP) - Thousands of Buddhist monks and their supporters launched a second march Monday in Myanmar's main city, heading to a former university campus near the home of detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, witnesses said.

The protest began near the city's river dockyards, and then headed towards the former campus of Yangon University and the busy Hledan market, witnesses said.

The university was the site of major anti-government protests during a 1988 uprising led by students, which was crushed by the military.

YANGON, Sept 23, 2007 (AFP) - Armed police on Sunday blocked more than 200 protesters, including Buddhist monks, from entering the road leading to the home of detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, witnesses said.

The group of about 120 monks and 100 of their supporters had broken off from a major protest that brought 20,000 people onto the streets of Myanmar's commercial hub Yangon.

YANGON, Sept 23, 2007 (AFP) - Aung San Suu Kyi's soft voice and demeanour belie a steely resolve in the long and painful struggle to bring democracy to Myanmar after decades of military dictatorship.

She has spent most of the past 18 years under house arrest in a rambling, lakeside home after leading her National League for Democracy to a landslide victory in elections in 1990.

On Saturday however, crying in the rain, she stepped out to greet Buddhist monks who stopped and prayed outside, after police had unexpectedly lifted the roadblock that normally bars access.

YANGON, Sept 23, 2007 (AFP) - As the rain fell on the monks chanting their prayers, Aung San Suu Kyi stepped out of her home where she has been confined for most of the past two decades.

It was an iconic moment Saturday as the symbol of Myanmar's long struggle for democracy paid her respects to around 1,000 Buddhist monks now emerging at the forefront of a new wave of protests against the ruling military junta.

YANGON, Sept 22, 2007 (AFP) - Detained Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi stepped out of her home in tears Saturday to greet Buddhist monks marching past the compound where she is confined by the military junta, witnesses said.

Armed guards usually block the road leading to the rambling lakeside house, but in an unprecedented move, they allowed about 1,000 monks to walk past the home where she was been detained for most of the last 18 years.